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Tipton leads Mitsch Bush in Colorado’s 3rd CD, bipartisan poll shows
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Republican Scott Tipton, the incumbent in Colorado’s sprawling 3rd Congressional District, has a 5 percentage point lead over Democratic challenger Diane Mitsch Bush days before election day, a bipartisan polling team said Saturday. The live interview poll of 500 likely voters in the district, which includes about half the state and stretches from Grand Junction…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | Will Election Night 2018 be a double whammy?
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Two political waves could be washing across Colorado on election night this Tuesday. The first is a “blue wave” of Democratic votes from folks who dislike Republican President Donald Trump. The second is a “big dollars” wave of Democratic votes caused by the fact Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis has spent more than $20 million…
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Democrat gains traction in Colorado’s 3rd District congressional race
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Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush appears to be gaining traction in her bid to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in Colorado’s sprawling 3rd Congressional District. The national election forecast blog FiveThirtyEight on Tuesday ranked the race as a toss-up between the two candidates, a shift from the safe lead that incumbent Tipton enjoyed late last…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Gun-debate groups choose sides in Colorado’s CD3
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Prominent national organizations on both sides of the gun debate are taking sides in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund this week endorsed U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, the Republican seeking a fifth term, while Giffords, the gun safety organization founded by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, endorsed former state Rep.…
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BIDLACK | Being well read is a virtue — unless you enter politics
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My Editor at Colorado Politics is dashingly handsome (Ed: correct), kind (Ed: to a fault), and is a relentlessly mean taskmaster (Ed: hey, wait a minute…). Therefore, when I sit down to write one of my twice-weekly columns, I know I’m only a misplaced comma away from oblivion. And he really, really wishes I’d write…
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Attorney general, congressional candidates debate at Club 20
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GRAND JUNCTION – Club 20’s Saturday night debate lineup featured the first face-to-face confrontation between the major party candidates for the state’s 3rd Congressional District and a lively debate – the second but most intense to date – between the major party candidates for attorney general. The Club 20 debates mark the unofficial start to…
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Congressional candidate Diane Mitsch Bush defends socialist reading
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A socialist for Congress from Colorado? Let those with an untarnished search history cast the first stone. If you were to pluck a given journalist out of the bunch and examine their internet search history, you’d find some pretty odd stuff, guaranteed. For example, when I was a crime reporter, my search history would have…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Business, LGBTQ groups bestow bipartisan backing on lawmakers
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Two of Colorado’s most prominent political committees – One Colorado PAC, which advocates for LGBTQ residents, and NFIB Colorado PAC, the political arm of the state’s largest small business organization – announced a slew of legislative endorsements last week, with both groups crossing party lines in an instance or two. One Colorado executive director Daniel…
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PRIMARY 2018: DeGette, Crow, Neguse win congressional primaries
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With decisive votes, Coloradans set the table in the June primary that ended Tuesday for seven fall congressional elections, settling most key races not long after voting ended by wide margins. Less than an hour after the 7 p.m. voting deadline, three of the state’s most interesting congressional races were already decided, and a fourth…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Support for candidates piles up as primary ballots drop
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Candidates in the June 26 primary election continue to receive endorsements from politicians and organizations even as ballots arrive in voters’ mailboxes this week and the campaigns near the finish line. Here are some of the Colorado candidate endorsements announced in recent days: ? Citing his “proven record of leadership on our Second Amendment freedoms,”…
