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ONE LUCKY S.O.B.: Mike Littwin Takes Twitter Class, Becomes Famous A Week Later
Ponytailed Poet Mike Littwin of The Denver Post takes a Twitter class on Oct 31. Little more than a week later his 140 characters are beamed to millions of people on the CNBC GOP primary debate, scrolling across the bottom of the screen (Dean Singleton has magical...
THE DEBATE THAT WASN’T: Three Takeaways From The Class Discussion On CNBC
Presidential politics is normally a bare knuckle brawl. At tonight's GOP primary debate in Michigan it was more class discussion than knife fight. In a debate devoid of candidate-on-candidate clashes, the only damage done to any candidate was to Rick Perry, whose...
TEACHER UNIONS LOSING STREAK CONTINUES: 103, School Boards & Teacher Rating System Part Of Trend
The teacher unions in Colorado, primarily the Colorado Education Association (CEA), have had an amazingly terrible track record in Colorado politics recently, picking one electoral loser after another and throwing good money after bad on failed policy priorities. With...
UNLEASHING BILL: New Crossroads GPS Ad Hits Obama With Clinton In Denver And Colorado Springs
Crossroads GPS, a name that strikes fear into Democrats' hearts across the country, is dropping three hundred large into Colorado, slamming President Obama's support for tax hikes in a recession using the words of none other than former President Bill...
ILLEGAL BRIBE? Questions Being Raised About How The CO Democrat Party Pushed Out Brian Carroll
UPDATE: Eli Stokols tweets that Carroll's gig is voluntary. No comment from Andy Kerr yet as to why he needed Rick Palacio to bribe his opponent out of the race with a political appointment. ------- OUR VIEW: The whole situation has the foul aroma of pay-to-play...
Denver trash heavy with inactive mail ballots
Working on campaigns, we would never mail to inactive voters for a simple reason: they didn't vote. Apparently, that paradigm has shifted, if you listen to ProgressNow.According to its latest rant, "...those so called 'inactive' voters weighed in -- at the...
DEMOCRAT PARTY RUNS TO THE LEFT; Obama In Big Trouble In Key 2012 Swing States
Two new polls out by Gallup and Resurgent Republic have good signs in them for conservatives hoping to defeat Barack Obama next year. Gallup's poll shows the Democrat Party moving further to the left ideologically, with conservatives now outnumbering liberals in...
PROP 103 POST-MORTEM: How A Rag-Tag Collection Of Conservatives Helped Kill The $3 Billion Tax Hike
It's been a whole week since the voters of Colorado told state Senator Rollie Heath (D-Boulder) and his tax hike team of liberal legislators to "occupy this," so we figured it was a good time to take a look back at the forces that helped kill the...
UN-DEMOCRAT(IC): Democrat Power Brokers Push Gay Veteran Out Of State House Race
What is it with Colorado Democrats and offers of positions and titles to shove aside primary contenders from challenging incumbents? Last year the Obama White House offered Andrew Romanoff a government gig if he decided not to run against "Accidental...
UNFRIENDING OBAMA: New Super PAC With Heavy Facebook Presence Launches First Ad
A new Super PAC called Raising Red launched their first ad today to commemorate the one year mark to Barack Obama's defeat. The ad takes aim at Obama's abysmal economic record -- and it does it using three things that Barack Obama relied heavily on to win the...