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COLORADO ELECTION 2018

Money bomb: Candidates and groups dropped a record $239 million on...

Political spending in Colorado’s pivotal 2018 midterm election topped $239 million, far more than any prior year, according to an analysis of campaign finance reports...

With Nov. 6 gains, Colorado Democrats boost prospects for new laws...

One Saturday in March, a month after the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., angry demonstrators filled Denver’s Civic Center Park with a warning for...

A Democratic wave surged deep into Colorado’s key counties on Election...

For years, political analysts have had their eyes on a handful of counties in Colorado — Jefferson, Arapahoe, Adams and Larimer — as bellwethers,...

A record number of Latinos to join the state legislature, but...

On Wednesday afternoon, about 24 hours after the polls closed, Rochelle Galindo was at her mother’s house in Greeley watching the votes trickle in...

What does it mean that 35% of Colorado voted against banning...

Colorado voters were asked this election whether they wanted to ban slavery once and for all in the state. Just under two-thirds of voters supported...

The momentum behind Colorado’s blue wave: Democratic women and independent voters

The Big Takeaway from last night’s election is clear: The election of Jared Polis to the governorship, Jason Crow to Congress, Democrats to all...

Backers of oil and gas drilling setbacks in Colorado lost at...

The defeat of Proposition 112, Colorado’s oil and gas drilling setback measure, followed a national trend. Voters in Arizona and Washington, like those in...

Failure of Amendment 73 and Prop. 110 forces Colorado back to...

Colorado voters have turned the state as blue as it’s been since World War II, tapping Democrats for the governorship, every other major statewide...

Littwin: In case Trump missed it, the Dem victories in Colorado...

Pick your adjective to describe the Democratic tsunami in Colorado Tuesday — huge, monumental, colossal, ginormous  — and I promise I can top it. This...

Crow ousts Coffman in battleground congressional district

Democrat Jason Crow has won Colorado's 6th Congressional District, beating long-time Republican Rep. Mike Coffman in a high-stakes, high-dollar battleground race. Nationally, the victory...
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