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Colorado remains among a shrinking pool of states with glass ceilings at top of the ticket | TRAIL MIX
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Will 2026 be the year Colorado voters shatter one of the state’s stubborn and seemingly incongruous glass ceilings? The Centennial State approaches next year’s sesquicentennial — preparing to celebrate the 150th anniversary of statehood — with an increasingly rare distinction in the almanac of American politics. Across all those years, voters have never elected a…
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Polis’ executive team is full of familiar faces
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Colorado Gov.-elect Jared Polis on Thursday announced who will advise him on legislation and various policy areas – and many of the names will be familiar to those who follow Democratic state politics. Eve Lieberman, Congressman Polis’ chief of staff, will serve as the new governor’s top adviser on policy and legislative counsel, and as the…
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Despite primary attack ad, teachers back Polis now
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What occurred at the state Capitol Tuesday was the tale of two tapes: one from Republican gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton in 2010 and another from May that Colorado education advocates spent over $1.1 million to put on TV to attack Jared Polis, who nonetheless won the Democratic nomination. About three dozen educators and legislators backing…
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Polis, Stapleton commit to debates (but not all the same ones)
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Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton laid out the gubernatorial debates they’re willing to do Monday. Now the haggling on the dates, venues and questions begins. Both campaigns told Colorado Politics they have been inundated with requests to appear at debates and other joint events. Polis issued a press release Monday afternoon challenging Stapleton…
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TRAIL MIX | Positive polls like Jason Crow’s are often shrouded in mystery
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Jason Crow’s campaign is touting the results of a poll showing the Democrat with a slim lead over five-term Republican Mike Coffman in Colorado’s battleground 6th Congressional District. The survey, commissioned by the Crow campaign, found the first-time candidate had the support of 47 percent of the district’s likely general election voters, edging out Coffman’s…
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‘All families have the right to choose the best educational options for their children’
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How interesting – no, how ugly – were the teachers unions’ pro-Cary Kennedy attack ads during the Democratic primary against Michael Johnston and even Jared Polis. Their crime? They dared to discuss parental choice in education. Middle- and upper-income parents who are dissatisfied with the public school to which their children are assigned have the…
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NOONAN | Democratic women voters blow the top off the state primaries
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Democratic women vote. Pay attention. That’s the biggest message from the recent Colorado primary. Democrats and Dem-leaning unaffiliated voters as a whole outvoted the GOP 56% to 44% by the numbers. Democratic women outvoted Democratic men 60% to 40%. Democratic women outvoted GOP women 58% to 42%. Democratic women outvoted GOP men 56% to 44%. It’s unprecedented.…
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Money wins: the death of the grassroots and caucuses
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It’s rare when the far left Bernie Sanders followers and the far right friends of Gordon Klingenschmitt share a common political cause, but the recent Colorado Republican and Democrat state-wide party primary votes are sadly cause for such new agreement. Grassroots activists are now terribly outspent by the establishment middle, worsened now that unaffiliateds voted…
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INSIGHTS: Will candidates talk differently after primary?
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What is true in everything else is usually true in politics. First impressions matter. After the primaries were settled, more or less, on June 26, general election voters were primed to be impressed. In most election years, politicians would see the critical need. But not this year. Stay with me on this. If first impressions…
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Democrats pledge unity, rally around gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis
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DENVER – Leading Colorado Democrats on Friday called for a unified front ahead of the fall election at a Capitol rally for freshly minted gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis, though the absence of the three candidates defeated by the Boulder congressman in Tuesday’s primary drew jeers from state Republicans. Speakers hailed Polis’ drive and inclusive approach…
