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In presidential run, Colorado’s Hickenlooper pushes compromise in an uncompromising time...

It is a late Friday afternoon in early February and passengers at Gate 12 of Washington’s Reagan National Airport are displeased. “Fucking United,” a lawyer-lobbyist...

Littwin: OK, let’s agree Tancredo is a sure thing, but maybe...

If Colorado Republicans didn’t understand how much trouble they were in before Tom Tancredo jumped into the governor’s race— and they did, believe me...

Littwin: Tancredo, the one man who can out-Trump Trump

This is not exactly a newsflash, but Tom Tancredo is threatening to run for governor. Again. And any establishment Republican politician in Colorado who...

GOP Pueblo candidate Tom Ready not sure Sandy Hook shootings happened

  Republican candidate for the Pueblo County Commission Tom Ready is a former Republican Party county chairman and member of the state Parks Board. He's...

With primary win, Beauprez, state GOP escape disaster

In his broad steady smile polished with camera light and in a rolling victory speech prepared on and off for years, former Congressman Bob Beauprez on Tuesday night looked and sounded like relief and redemption.

Littwin: A GOP primary election doomed to end on the rocks

This is the day Republican primary voters should be nominating someone who could reasonably challenge incumbent Gov. John Hickenlooper. But they won't, because there's no one in the four-way field who can.

Littwin: A state GOP dedicated to strange

  THE strangest thing about the GOP four-way governor's primary is that it's as if 2010 -- officially the strangest run for governor in modern...

For Dems, Tom Tancredo is the new Dan Maes

The ads transparently attack Tancredo and main GOP primary rival, Bob Beauprez, in ways meant to play on the sentiments of activist Republican voters. There's rich irony at the heart of the strategy.

Tancredo will be Tancredo

The Colorado GOP’s nightmare is coming true. Tom Tancredo, unfazed by the candidates running against him, is speeding toward victory in the primary race for governor.  

Littwin: GOP race for governor still a mad toss-up

  As a longtime (really, really longtime) political pundit, I'm embarrassed to say I have no idea who is going to win the Republican primary...