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Get Them All Out: Colorado Dems bet big on ground game

  TEN miles west of Denver, Shawna Fritzler’s upper-middle-class development blooms on a rural two-lane road peppered by occasional crumbling farmhouses. This conservative hamlet in...

Gardner candidacy increasingly marked by personhood dodge

  Today brings another two chapters in one of the most absurd story lines unfolding in Colorado election politics this year. Bloomberg reporter Josh Green...

Littwin on the great Gardner dodge and feint

  Cory Gardner has mastered the art of not answering a question. But he ran into a reporter, in FOX 31's Eli Stokols, who refused...

DA, Team Udall critique Gardner’s hardline anti-abortion record

  In the wake of the Cory Gardner campaign's efforts to shift the break-neck Colorado Senate race conversation away from Gardner's confusing support of personhood...

Hustled: We saw this coming

  Remember President Obama playing pool with Gov. Hickenlooper at the Wynkoop Brewery earlier this summer? It’s now the centerpiece of a Republican Governors...

Gardner’s awkward scheduling priorities

During the floods and the government shutdown he was hobnobbing with Karl Rove and his money men. During the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe it was lobbyists for British Petroleum.

Denver television gives politics its due

If you watch local TV news in different cities around the country, and we're not suggesting you do so, you see that a small number of stations have political beat reporters, but most do not.

‘Survivor’-style Denver mayoral debate may be best candidate debate ever

Accepting the fact that electoral politics is as much entertainment as politics and that all entertainment must now include text-message voting, youth-voter organization NewEra Colorado is gathering Denver's mayoral candidates for a debate that will embrace our fully mediated reality-teevee era. Scheduled for Wednesday evening, the debate will subject candidates to Denver trivia questions in addition to more standard policy questions. The candidates will answer to live-audience member, video participants and a panel of experts. Denver Fox News reporter Eli Stokols will play the panel's Steven Tyler. Ellen Dumm of the Campaign for a Strong Colorado will play J-Lo.