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OUR BRUSH WITH DRUDGE: The Awesome Power Of A Single Link
A few weeks ago, in the span of about 24 hours we at Colorado Peak Politics received a quarter million new visitors. While not sharing any of our top secret, eyes only traffic data, we'll just say that was a substantial increase in our normal visitor flow. How did...
The New Politics of Birth Control
By Kelly Sloan If last fall someone had mentioned that, in a few months, American Presidential politics would be focused on the issue of contraception, I doubt very much whether that person would be asked to offer odds on much else. And yet, here we are in February,...
CAMPAIGN LESSON: If You ‘Splainin’, You Losin’
Before there was Karl Rove, there was another political operative whose name became synonymous with the President he helped get elected: James Carville. The Ragin' Cajun has had many a phrase adopted into the political world's lexicon, most famously the now...
Sunny Roseman Brightens Up the Political Scene in Colorado
The "Inconvenient" Sunny Roseman is taking a brand new approach to politics, going where no former meteorologist has ever gone before. Rob "Sunny" Roseman has enjoyed a long career as a meteorologist and television reporter in both radio and TV, in...
Voter Fraud in Colorado?
By Peak News Contributor Dave DiepenbrockIt's easy to cast illegal ballots. Our current system has nearly no way to detect fraudulent voting. Maybe the undetectable nature of voter fraud explains why news reports somehow missed these points when a Colorado...
DITCHING DIFFICULT DUTY: Congressional Candidate Sal Pace Dodging Oil And Gas Issues
Lynn Bartels of The Denver Post picked up on an important theme in today's dead wood edition, looking at state Representative and Congressional candidate Sal Pace's (D-Urination) multiple absences from his taxpayer funded day job at the state Capitol. This...
OP-ED SLAM: Mike Rosen Takes Ed Perlmutter To Task On Class Warfare Hypocrisy
Congressman Ed Perlmutter has long fancied himself a man of the people, and his staff and supporters have tried to use that false identity to slam Congressional challenger, and scion of the Coors Brewery family, Joe Coors Jr by comparison. As we pointed out a few...
IRONY ALERT: Enviro Ad Thanks Obama For Rejecting Lobbyists After He Hires Enviro Lobbyist
In a case of what Mark Hillman would call delicious irony, the Environmental Defense Fund is running a web ad that thanks Obama for "rejecting lobbyists -- and protecting kids" a day after it was revealed that Obama hired a high powered environmental...
SHAFFER VS THE PEOPLE: Senate President Brandon Shaffer Loves Ineffective, Hated Red Light Cameras
The most important power that the President of the Senate possesses is not the power to introduce legislation, amend legislation, or vote on legislation. It is the power to assign legislation to committees, knowing full well that the committee assignment...
SMACKDOWN! Harvey Calls Morse An “Embarrassment” (We’ve Been Saying It For Years)
You have got to love it when the niceties of politics get put aside and the true passions of lawmakers are laid out in plain terms for the audience tuned in at home to see. Such was the case yesterday, when the capitol's most pugnacious right wing pitbull,...