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Blame bad strategy, not blue wave, for Republican failure on Election Day
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Last Tuesday’s election catastrophe in Colorado should not have been a surprise to anyone paying attention, nor should we be surprised that Republicans nationally performed better than expected. However, both should serve as an indictment of the Colorado Republican Party and a wake-up call for grassroots activists across our state. What happened on Tuesday was…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | Even after blue wave, Colorado retains its purple hue
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Team Blue “ran the table” in last Tuesday’s Colorado state elections. It’s been “four score and two” years since Democrats won all four statewide elected positions in the state back in 1936 – governor, treasurer, attorney general, and secretary of state – and won majorities in both houses of the state legislature. What accounts for…
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Winners and losers in Colorado’s 2018 election
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Elections are decisions, and Colorado voters clearly favored some over others this year. Here’s Colorado Politics’ take on who came out on top in the Colorado midterms. WINNERS Democrats The blue wave was a bit choppy nationally. Democrats captured the U.S. House and gained several governorships, while Republicans held onto the U.S. Senate. But in…
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Polis’ mom takes post-election shot at Stapleton
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Gov-elect Jared Polis kept his family out of his campaign, for the most part, but his mom made her feelings about Walker Stapleton known on social media Wednesday night. About 24 hours after her son was declared the winner, his mom, Susan Polis Schutz, had something to say to the Republican nominee. And she said…
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Takeaways from Colorado Election Day 2018
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Here’s what jumped out to Colorado Politics about what voters decided in the midterm election. Big dreams win When Colorado’s last Republican governor was first elected in 1998, Bill Owens spoke of specific projects with specific plans to pay for them. That worked then, but this year fellow Republican Walker Stapleton, the self-described “numbers guy”…
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NOONAN | Tuesday’s ‘blue wave’ underscored by some stunning numbers
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This election delivered some astounding voter turnout numbers and left issues dogging the state for years unresolved. Tied for the most astonishing number of the night: 761,124, the turnout of unaffiliated voters in the election. UAFs took the lead in registrations a couple of years ago, and recent figures show them at 39 percent of…
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INSIGHTS | Overheated politics baked this election
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Politics is always rough business, but this year, “anything goes” has left its mark on Colorado. And in two years – or, more realistically, the morning after this year’s election – we’ll do all over again. The rough politics of this election is like marking the height of a child on the door, except this…
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Homestretch: Polis trumpets ambitious agenda, turnout effort
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Jared Polis is finishing his campaign for governor the way he launched it nearly a year and a half ago – describing a set of ambitious proposals while traveling Colorado. “I’m excited about the opportunity to move our state forward. And that’s really what this election is all about,” Polis told supporters at a recent…
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Homestretch: Stapleton reminding voters of his values
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Walker Stapleton was juggling his race for governor with planning Halloween trick-or-treating for his three kids Wednesday morning. He joked that he might dress up as liberal U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his son, Craig, could go as Democratic gubernatorial opponent Jared Polis. “A father-son type deal,” he said with the big laugh of a…
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Stapleton strikes bipartisan note in telephone town hall
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Walker Stapleton was at home in Greenwood Village Thursday night after a long day of campaigning, as he took questions from Coloradans over the telephone about his plans as governor. The Republican nominee told listeners he can identify the pots of money to fund transportation without a tax hike, as well as run government more…
