Denver Post: Politics

PHOENIX — Democrat Kyrsten Sinema won Arizona’s open U.S. Senate seat Monday in a race that was among the most closely watched in the nation, beating Republican Rep. Martha McSally in the battle to replace GOP Sen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

After Watergate, but before the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, there was Gary Hart.
By every measure, the charismatic Colorado senator was the front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, with widespread support from young voters, a command of policy issues, and a knack for connecting with audiences.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A commonly accepted wisdom has long held that a “Boulder liberal” can’t win statewide office, but in an election year that saw a number of electoral firsts from coast to coast, Jared Polis just likely put that canard to permanent rest with an emphatic win Tuesday to claim the distinction of becoming the nation’s first openly gay governor-elect.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida secretary of state ordered recounts in the U.S. Senate and governor races on Saturday, an unprecedented review of two major contests in the state that took five weeks to decide the 2000 presidential election.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Democrats kept the governorship. They took the state Senate. And they defeated “bulletproof” U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora.
But the biggest sign that a “blue wave” swept Colorado in Tuesday’s election can be found in Adams and Arapahoe counties, where two incumbent Republican sheriffs were unseated by a pair of cops working in the tiny Denver suburb of Mountain View who ran as Democrats.

Coloradans had a rare opportunity to take a stand against slavery.  Even in 2018, there are still holdouts.

Hold on, say supporters of the seemingly failed $567 million school bond issue that would fund safety and security upgrades in Jefferson County.
The measure, once written off as defeated, was behind by just 248 votes as of Friday morning, with as many as 10,000 ballots still to be counted, according to the Jefferson County Clerk and Record’s Office.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The next U.S. attorney general is going to have to respect the decision of Colorado and other states to legalize recreational and medical marijuana — at least if Republican Sen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

NEW YORK — A video distributed by the Trump administration to support its argument for banning CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House appears to have been doctored to make Acosta look more aggressive than he was during an exchange with a White House intern, an independent expert said Thursday.

The next president of the Colorado state Senate called for higher standards and “common-sense solutions” Thursday, signaling a new tone for a legislative body that has been bitterly divided by partisan politics and sexual assault investigations.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share