Crazy Colorado election exchanges feed Hotline’s annual quote list

It will come as no surprise to local politics watchers that National Journal Hotline writers Wednesday turned up quotes from Colorado’s wacky midterm election campaigns to complete a list of the top political quotes of the year. U.S. Senate candidates Michael Bennet, Ken Buck and Andrew Romanoff made the list. So did gubernatorial candidates Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo. Of course they did!

In lengthy Statesman interview, Wadhams fends off critics, weighs future

The Colorado Statesman this week published a massive interview with Colorado GOP Chair Dick Wadhams. The reading is good but, for the most part, the information he relates is not that new.

It’s a good read, and the…

Taking a page from Palin, a sassy grammatically challenged Maes shoots back from Facebook

Former Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes, who was in it to win it, is still around. He posted a long and rambling Facebook essay Wednesday characterized by conspiracy theories and pointing the finger for his loss everywhere but at himself.…

Palin and Tancredo mocked by Washington Post columnist

Michael Gerson, in his column today in The Washington Post called out former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for endorsing such candidates as Christine O’Donnell and our own Tom Tancredo, whom Palin endorsed just a day before the election. Until…

Noonan: Palin is a nincompoop (and so is Dan Maes)

Ronald Reagan speech writer and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan lit up the blogosphere Friday with an election postmortem in which she called Facebook-based Tea Party political gadfly Sarah Palin a “nincompoop.” It may not sound like it,…

Personhood initiative only slightly more popular with Denver voters than space-alien commission

Politics fanatics at lefty blogsite Colorado Pols running numbers in the wake of the election note that nearly as many Denver County residents voted for the “laughing stock” ballot initiative to create a commission to explore possible…

Democrats still have plenty to celebrate in Colorado

With the rest of the country drowning in a red bloodbath on Tuesday that turned over the U.S. House to Republicans and drastically cut into the Democratic Senate majority, Colorado was still feeling somewhat blue – if not slightly purple around the gills.

Hickenlooper takes governor’s office; Perlmutter claims CD7

9News tonight is calling the governor’s race for Democrat John Hickenlooper by a 53 to 36 percent margin over American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo. Republican Dan Maes had tallied just 8 percent of the vote.

“I am humbled and…

Early returns have Hickenlooper, Bennet ahead

With only about 5 percent of the ballots counted, 9News tonight was reporting early leads for Democrats John Hickenlooper and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet.

With under 100,000 votes counted — most likely from metro area precincts expected to go…

Maes not in it to win it — just to spark a right-wing revolution

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes said Monday he didn’t stay in the race to the bitter end to win but to help start a conservative revolution within the Grand Old Party. Maes said his candidacy is part of that transformation.…