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The University of Denver and the Glover Park consulting group conducted a press conference last Monday in Washington, DC, to discuss Colorad...

Legislators and reporters gather around Speaker McNulty late last night to ask about bringing the chamber out of recess. If you weren...

Just to follow up on my previous post about Tuesday's Colorado Republican caucus , I've played with a bit more county-level data an...

One must pity Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty, who runs the chamber with a one-seat majority. It takes so little to threaten majority c...

Remember Dan Maes? The Republican gubernatorial nominee who managed to pull just 11% of the vote last year? Well, he's got a new book ou...

Susan Schulten has another fascinating post up at the NYT 's Civil War site. This one is about the interrelatedness of the slavery cris...

Please forgive the shameless plug, but if you're teaching about the 2010 elections this spring, or if you'd just like to know more a...

So the nominee of the American Constitution Party (that'd be Tom Tancredo) won way more than 10 percent of the vote in Colorado's re...

If reports are correct , Republicans have finally won enough seats in the Colorado state house to claim a majority.  Which means the coming ...

I'm pleased to report that the Charlotte  Raleigh News & Observer has picked up my article (with Steve Greene ) on the electoral c...

ColoradoPols highlights one of the particular dangers facing the Colorado Republican Party right now resulting from the bizarre governor...

There's a great story going on in the Colorado governor's race with regards to third parties.  When Tom Tancredo jumped into the ra...

I took my students on a tour of the Colorado capitol building today.  Like most state capitol buildings, this one does a nice job honoring u...

If you care about parties, you should be following the Colorado gubernatorial race right now.   Last month , I explained some of the backgro...

The DSCC has released an ad criticizing Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck for his advocacy of repealing the 17th Amendment, which would r...

I can't help thinking that Tancredo's recent entry into the governor's race made Dan Maes' victory in yesterday's primar...

The anti-incumbency/anti-establishment meme being pushed by the media isn't precisely true, but it's not precisely false, either.  A...

Okay, I'll admit I'm excited.  It's Election Day here in Colorado.  Well, it's more like Election Deadline Day -- roughly a ...

This is not what Michael Bennet wanted to read in the NY Times four days before the primary: In the spring of 2008, the Denver public sc...

In the original "V" miniseries, the evil Diana had a brainwashing procedure that would compel human subjects to endorse the Visito...