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HORSE RACE: Volatile Polls Heading Into Home Stretch
Post-Access Hollywood polls from battleground states are out today, continuing to show a tight race in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It seems like Clinton and Trump partisans are not budging off their positions, in light of Trump's hot mic comments from...
WAFFLES FOR BREAKFAST: TPP Just One Example of Bennet’s Indecisive Leadership
It looks like Bennet is having trouble wrangling his left-wing Democratic base, who are miffed that after waffling on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he finally decided he supports it. They don’t like his vote supporting the Iran deal, and neither did we. That’s...
WIKILEAKS ANALYSIS: Nicholson Warns Catholics On Clinton Agenda
In a wide ranging interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business News, Coloradan Jim Nicholson, an attorney with the Denver law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, and a former VA Secretary, RNC Chairman, and Ambassador to the Vatican, zeroed in on the Clinton...
RIPPLE EFFECT: State Sen. Ellen Roberts Announces Resignation
Republican State Sen. Ellen Roberts of Durango announced Sunday she will resign from that seat on Dec. 31 to spend more time with family and build her law practice, creating a ripple in GOP politics as well as the party’s one-seat majority in the upper chamber. She...
READING THE TEA LEAVES: Huge Uptick in Military and Overseas Ballots Returned
In late September, approximately 19,000 ballots were mailed to military servicemembers and other Coloradans living out of state. They are starting to flood back in - big time. On Monday, 2,500 had been returned. As of today, 5,749 have been received. Active duty...
WHIFF: College “Fact Checkers” Swing And Miss On Ken Buck Climate Change Charge
Is anyone at the Denver Post reviewing the content being hung on the newspaper's website by the enthusiastic, but sometimes misguided CU News Corps critics? Some editorial oversight may be in order. In their latest dispatch, News Corps fact checkers call out...
PAYDIRT: Darryl Glenn Tops Michael Bennet Q3 Fundraising
Darryl Glenn hung a big number on the board for third quarter fundraising: nearly $2.8 million. This left him with $1.9 million cash on hand going into the critical final month of the campaign. Glenn spokesperson Katey Price said of the candidate's strong numbers:...
COLEAKS PART II: The Wellington Webb, John Hickenlooper, Martin O’Malley Edition
In May, Gov. John Hickenlooper partied with Martin O’Malley, former Maryland Governor and then-presidential candidate, at the sine die party celebrating the end of Colorado’s legislative session. We wrote about the two men acting chummy, and at the time we thought we...
DIVESTING IN MADDEN? CU Regents Election Heats Up
Running for the CU Board of Regents this season seems to have little to do with education and more to do with who can proclaim themselves an environmentalist savior of the planet. Former sate House Majority Leader Alice Madden and the Democratic Party are so desperate...
IT’S GOOD TO BE KING: No Criminal Charges for EPA Spill
The federal government has investigated itself, and decided they are not to blame for the Gold King Mine blowout they caused, and therefore they cannot hold themselves criminally responsible for what they did. The inspector general, a position appointed by the...
