By Cara DeGette

UPDATE: The Colorodao Independent will be blogging Obama's visit to Colorado Springs. We'll provide a link and updates here.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is set to appear in conservative Colorado Springs on Wednesday, where he is expected to deliver a speech highlighting a...

Despite rumblings that Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr could Ralph Nader Republicans this November, some political observers are saying not so fast.

Similar to most third-party tickets in recent presidential elections, the former GOP congressman from Georgia has been labeled...

By Wendy Norris for Colorado Independent.

Questions began to arise when five prominent state blogs were noticeably passed over for either lesser-known sites, or in one case a site that simply publishes press releases verbatim.

Were these blogs dissed because they had written critically about their...

By Erin Rosa

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado announced it was filing a lawsuit against the city of Denver and the U.S. Secret Service today in an effort to disclose plans for an anticipated demonstration zone during the Democratic National Convention in August and to obtain more...

By David O Williams

Superdelegate Debbie Marquez of Edwards, who declared her support for Sen. Barack Obama in early February, said it's time for her undeclared counterparts in Colorado to "get off the fence" and start announcing who they will support for the Democratic nomination for president.

"I do agree...

By: Erin Rosa

DENVER-- All this week attorneys here will be conducting trainings to teach prospective demonstrators protesting at the Democratic National Convention how to react to common scenarios involving police.

The effort is being spearheaded by the DNC-People's Law Project and the Oakland-based Midnight Special Law Collective, two groups...

Second in a series: With the excitement of a close race between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and the convenience of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, many state Democrats want to become delegates to the national convention. Colorado Confidential is following the trek of one delegate hopeful...

By Leslie Robinson

It was about as grassroots as one can get in Democratic politics at the Garfield County Democratic convention and assembly in Rifle on Saturday. Many of the delegates were first-time participants in Colorado's caucus and convention system. The Beltway political scene may be far away yet these...

The political director for the Democratic National Committee showed up in Colorado in December. He came, said Colorado Democratic chairwoman Pat Waak, to measure progress in his party's so-called "Western strategy."

By Jim Spencer

That's the notion that for the first time in decades, the Democratic presidential nominee has a...

The following piece is published on HuffPost's OffTheBus as well as Colorado Confidential.

By Dan Whipple

Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette has endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination. DeGette has been named Clinton's national co-chair of the campaign's Health Care Policy Task...

The following piece is published on Colorado Confidential as well as HuffPost's OffTheBus.

By Kate Bernuth

On the heels of a citizenship campaign that helped one million Latinos begin the naturalization process, the same coalition is launching a massive get-out-the-vote effort aimed at...

They came for the logistics, and they also highlighted food, free speech - and golf carts. An estimated 400 journalists arrived at Denver's Pepsi Center on Tuesday for a test run through the site of next year's Democratic National Convention and to hear their leader Howard Dean talk about...

The following piece is published on Colorado Confidential as well as HuffPost's OffTheBus.

By Kerri Rebresh

Some call him an honorable anti-illegal immigration crusader. To others, he's a self-righteous xenophobe. Love him or hate him, opinions of Tom Tancredo are usually based on his provocative...

The following piece is published on Colorado Confidential as well as OffTheBus.

By Cara DeGette

In late October, during the gathering in Washington that drew a reported 2,600 conservatives plus every Republican presidential candidate, Huckabee mopped the floor with the other contenders. His 51 percent...

By Dan Whipple

The following piece is published on Colorado Confidential as well as OffTheBus.

The state of Colorado isn't for sale in the presidential funding race -- just a few zip codes.

Money donated from Colorado to presidential candidates came from only a few areas of the...

Here is something you don't hear very often in Colorado anymore: a politician comparing himself to Bob Beauprez.

Yet there was GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, noting the similarity between himself and Beauprez - whose campaign for Colorado governor last year was disastrous -- during a stump speech and...