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The early 2012 battleground picture

The Beltway conventional wisdom: If Obama is on the rebound, someone forgot to tell swing voters in the most important up-for-grabs states in 2012. The idea is that while Obama may be up nationally, he's lagging in the battleground states. But is that ...

This week in the War on Voting: New Hampshire target of right-wing voter fraud conspiracy

From the DNC's Protecting the Vote site. This week saw the war on voting carried to a ridiculous extreme. In order to prove the conservative case that conspiracies to commit voter fraud exist, James O'Keefe carried out a conspiracy to commit voter fr...

Minimum wage goes up in 8 states on Jan. 1

Vermont's minimum-wage workers get a 31-cent raise While the federal minimum wage remains at $7.25—$2.60 an hour less (after adjusting for inflation) than it was in 1968—some states have instituted a higher minimum, or even indexed the minimum wa...

Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The GOP’s stubborn electability problem

Will he still be laughing in eleven months? (Daron Dean/Reuters) Wednesday's polling offerings continued to offer specific evidence that a long-predicted potential crisis in the GOP threatens to be a legitimate phenomenon. And it might just explain ...

Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: No ‘co-leader’—Newt is the guy

The clear-cut #2 candidate in the GOP right now (Larry Downing/Reuters) For most of the 2012 campaign cycle, Mitt Romney has either been a clear leader in the GOP field, or he has been thrust into a co-leader role with a perpetually shifting anti-Mi...

Colorado secretary of state bars overseas soldiers from voting

Scott Gessler In a very determined effort by Colorado's Republican Secretary of State, Scott Gessler, to make sure as few people as possible actually get to vote in Colorado, U.S. troops serving overseas won't get to vote. Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert...

Colorado Lawmaker Meets Constituents at a Safeway, Post-Giffords Shooting

Rep. Ed Perlmutter held a "Government at the Grocery" event, the first since a gunman killed six people and severely wounded Rep Gabrielle Giffords last month. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Colorado Congressman to Hold Public Meeting for First Time Since Giffords’ Shooting

Filed under: Crime, Arizona Shooting"This kind of access is essential to the fabric of our democracy," said Rep. Ed Perlmutter, who will hold a public meeting at a Safeway store for the first time since Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot during a similar...

CO-Sen: Bennet takes lead, teabaggers cost GOP another seat

Yes, I'm still awake.

Bennet has just taken the lead in Colorado. And with just Boulder (deep Blue) and a sliver of El Paso County (Colorado Springs) left to report (and maybe Arapahoe, though that looks like another AP glitch), this one stays Blue.

So thanks Teabaggers! Thanks to your efforts, we got...

CO-Gov: Peas in the crazy pod, Palin endorses Tancredo

They really do deserve each other.

This is change you can believe in. Just two years ago, Tom Tancredo was a veritable outcast of the Republican Party. Karl Rove was screaming at him, John McCain scoffed at him, GOP pollsters viewed him as a saboteur within their midst. Tancredo's one issue--a near-apocalyptic...

CO-Sen: Ken Buck, foreign policy genius

Remember Sharron Angle's brilliant response when pressed for her position on Iraq and Afghanistan? "You know, the two wars that we are in right now are exactly what we are in."

That's hard to beat, but Ken Buck almost manages to.

BUCK: The first thing I think we...

CO-Sen, Gov: PPP–Buck/Bennet too close to call, Hickenlooper leads

Colorado is divided into almost equal thirds, politically. Unaffiliated voters there have as much vote power as Republicans and Dems and run the gamut from right of the teabaggers to left of Michael Moore. They also hold the keys to the Colorado Senate race, according to PPP's new poll, because Bennet and Buck both...

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