Thank you to the loyal readers and supporters of The Colorado Independent (2013-2020). The Indy has merged with the new nonprofit Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) on a new mission to strengthen local news in Colorado. We hope you will join us!

Visit COLab
Home Tags Mike Kopp

Tag: Mike Kopp

New polling is out and it says exactly what you’d think

Let's go straight to the latest PPP polling of Colorado to see: -- Obama unpopular (43-53). -- Obamacare even more unpopular (39-51). -- Therefore Mark Udall barely...

In crowded primary, GOP candidates for governor tout endorsements

Scrambling to differentiate themselves from one another, the seven contenders are trying to line up names that will mean something to primary voters.

Friday fact: Colorado candidate calendars

We took a look at calendar and event listings on several candidate's websites, so you don't have to.

A Storified view of Colorado caucus night

An annotated compilation of images, tweets and videos rounded up from around the state as voters from some 3,200 precincts filed into schools and other public buildings around the state.

Littwin: March Madness in the Centennial State

  A very bad thing happened to Scott Gessler at the big gubernatorial debate Sunday morning: No one laid a glove on him. In fact,...

Anticlimax alert: Beauprez is in

Late on a Friday, a day after Rep. Cory Gadner sucked up every bit of political oxygen, Beauprez' announcement will not go down as a model of great timing.

Waiting for the shakeout

There are people in Big Money Republican circles eyeing campaign races around the country. So far, they don’t see anything worth spending on in swing-state Colorado

Littwin: No-shows at the no-headline debate

debate was dominated by the absence of the boycotters, who are the apparent front-runners in the field and who didn't have a single good reason not to be there.

Littwin: We don’t do debates

  Now we have the new unofficial election rules in Colorado: It takes only two votes to effectively cut off debate in the Republican gubernatorial...

Poll numbers move up; Hickenlooper breathes out

The tepid showing by the gun-law-repeal boys (and girls) the other day at a state Senate committee hearing was a clue that that the...