(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Just as Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo started pleading with Colorado Republicans to stop beating up each other, GOP strategist Dick Wadhams took to the radio waves to slam down Tancredo as unelectable. On KNUS' Backbone Radio show Sunday, Wadhams amplified on an a Sept. 1 Denver Post op-ed, where he […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will be in Colorado Wednesday to help raise money for Andrew Romanoff and other Democratic congressional candidates, FOX31 Denver has confirmed. Pelosi, D-California, will appear at a morning fundraiser for Romanoff, the former statehouse Speaker who is challenging Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, for his 6th […]
Below are the updated fundraising numbers for Colorado Congressional candidates through Q2. The list is ordered by the amount of Cash on Hand at the end of the quarter. Democrat Andrew Romanoff leads all candidates in Cash on Hand amounts, while his opponent, incumbent Rep. Mike Coffman, raised the most money in Q2 alone. Click […]
With the 2013 legislative session behind us, we've updated The Big Line with our latest projections. Of note: It looks more and more as though Republican Scott Gessler will run for Governor rather than Secretary of State (as we suggested last year), so we've moved his line "off" the board for SOS. With Gessler off […]
Democrat Ken Gordon is currently the only Democrat registered as a candidate for Secretary of State in 2014, but is he really a candidate? It sure doesn't seem likely. Since filing his paperwork in December, Gordon has done little other than try to raise money for Democrat Andrew Romanoff in his bid for Congress in […]
The Q1 fundraising numbers are now available for all of Colorado's Congressional candidates. We've laid things out in a handy table format below, organized by total amount of cash on hand. Numbers in red indicate that the candidate spent more money in Q1 than he or she raised during the same period. Candidate Office Q1 […]
Periodically we have run a "mailbag" at Colorado Pols, generally dubbed "Ask Alva." We put out the call for questions in late March, and now we give you the answers. For our next "Ask Alva" feature, we expect you to do a lot better with the questions. We had a lot about technical problems (we're […]
*NOTE: Percentages reflect Colorado Pols' estimated chances of winning a particular race Numbers should not be read as estimations of final margins of victory. U.S. SENATE (D) Mark Udall* (60%) Polls are all over the place, and all may be inaccurate anyway. Dems quietly growing more confident by the day. (R) Cory Gardner* […]
If you were to Google the name of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper as recently as a couple of months ago, you'd see articles such as John Hickenlooper 2016 Presidential Buzz Continues, Dispite His Best Efforts but now, if you Google his name, most of the search results are Gov. John Hickenlooper Tells Senate Committee He […]
As support grows for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff's bid to unseat incumbent GOP Rep. Mike Coffman in 2014, there's been an…unsettling detail nagging at many Democratic political insiders. Kurtis Lee of the Denver Post reported as Romanoff announced his CD-6 bid, and commenters here have noted Romanoff's pledges to shun donations from political action committees […]