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2018 Polis

A Jared Polis supporter celebrates his gubernatorial win on Nov. 6, 2018. (Photo by Evan Semón)

Littwin: In case Trump missed it, the Dem victories in Colorado were huger than...

Pick your adjective to describe the Democratic tsunami in Colorado Tuesday — huge, monumental, colossal, ginormous  — and I promise I can top it. This...
Jared Polis victory

Jared Polis wins in Colorado, becoming the state’s first gay and first Jewish governor

DENVER — Stepping onto a stage to the soundtrack of Bob Dylan's seminal 1960s protest song "The times they are a changin'," Jared Polis...

‘Bernie Polis’ vs. Trump’s ‘yes man’: In closing arguments on the eve of the...

BOULDER — Twenty-four hours before polls close in Colorado, the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor spent the evening lobbing bombs at each other...

How Jared Polis Gets What He Wants: A Portrait in Four Parts

This is The Colorado Independent's complete four-part series on Jared Polis, Colorado’s Democratic nominee for governor. You can click directly to Part 1 (Polis’s...

Littwin: Stapleton changes debate strategy, trading in faux anger for phony outrage

If you watch the governor’s debates closely — and, because it’s my job, I do — you saw a, uh, radical change in Walker Stapleton’s...

Debate highlights: Polis and Stapleton on Trump, Bernie, Jovan Melton and that ‘99 police...

Republican state Treasurer Walker Stapleton spent parts of Colorado’s second-to-last gubernatorial debate trying to turn a 1999 police incident involving his opponent, Democratic Congressman...

Littwin: Stapleton is mad as hell, and he doesn’t think you should take it...

PUEBLO — Walker Stapleton is mad as hell and not just because he’s losing in the polls to Jared Polis. He’s mad — red-faced...

Six takeaways from the first Walker Stapleton and Jared Polis debate Colorado's candidates for...

In Colorado’s first televised gubernatorial debate of the 2018 general election, Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton did what voters have come to...
Polis Wins

Jared Polis cut in line to run for governor. Now he’s playing it safe....

This is the fourth and final part in a series about Colorado’s Democratic nominee for governor. Part 1 examined Jared Polis's early years. Part...

In Congress, so-called ‘Boulder liberal’ Jared Polis hasn’t always acted like one How Jared...

This is part of The Colorado Independent's four-part series on Jared Polis, Colorado’s Democratic nominee for governor. You can click directly to Part 1...