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As conservative attacks mount, Colorado’s Mike Coffman backs Robert Mueller in...

Amid a battle cry by some conservatives following reports that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, Colorado...

Wiretap: Trump flies all the way to Saudi Arabia and forgets...

Donald Trump gave his big Saudi speech on terrorism without saying the words "radical Islamic terrorism." And the same Trump who once said, "I...

Wiretap: AG Sessions is onto something new, targeting agreements on police...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has moved from illegal immigration to another contentious topic — police violence.  And the outcry may be nearly as loud....

Wiretap: With friends like these, who needs enemies?

The Washington Post writes that Republicans have reached a new level of panic over Donald Trump's campaign. Here's the money quote from Trump ally...

Wiretap: Smart guns could save lives but not without triggering gun-lobby...

Sharp Shooters Smart guns are ready. Why aren't we? Maybe because all they'd do is save lives, but that might not be enough for the...

Wiretap: The Tea Party shutdown has arrived

Three years of squabbling, name-calling, obstruction, rank bitterness and lost elections later, the Tea Party has finally brought its government shutdown to the people.

Obama opens double-digit lead over Romney in Colorado

A poll released today by Public Policy Polling shows that President Barack Obama has widened his lead over Romney substantially in Colorado.

Primary election stats suggest GOP youth-voter catastrophe will continue

Low turnout among youth voters for the Republican Super Tuesday primary contests suggests the GOP is making a major strategy misstep this year, analysts told the Colorado Independent. They said that Republican campaign messages to young people are mostly absent, weak or a turn-off and they called youth outreach efforts uninspired. They said the party looks to be continuing a disastrous trend sure to be exploited in the general election by President Obama, the man whose candidacy drew out young people as voters and volunteers in record numbers in 2008.

Latino voters favor Obama by wide margin, Fox poll indicates

According to a poll released this week, Latino voters are more likely to favor President Obama than any of the GOP presidential candidates.

Despite election-year rhetoric, U.S. energy booming in Obama era

Stumping in Colorado before the GOP caucuses earlier this month, Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich zeroed in on energy policy, arguing that the Obama administration is pushing an environmentally radical anti-business agenda that is bad for the economy and for national security. The speeches went over well with conservative primary voters, but mainstream reporters and analysts have a whole different take on the energy-industry "problem" facing the United States in the Obama era, one that has to do with historically booming production levels.
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