Diana DeGette

The Fourth of July is about fireworks, barbecuing, parades and -- of course -- politicking.

After the jump, check out where Colorado candidates for U.S. Senate and Congress will be on America's birthday.

It's time once again for our monthly update of the Top Ten Power Positions by the Inside Edge's very own Wally Edge. This month we get a new player on the board and Dick moves up one spot!

LillyFour years after a third-party campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Denver), George Lilly is back in the CD-1 race – this time, as a Republican.

The Denver businessman, who garnered 2 percent of the vote in 2004 while running for CD-1 on the American Constitution Party ticket, has reactivated his Web site, which asks district voters to “join George in the battle for the Constitution and the battle for America."

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGetteU.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Denver) won Saturday's CD-1 Democratic assembly unopposed, and suggested her superdelegate vote may go to Barack Obama following the last Democratic presidential primary, ColoradoPols is reporting.

DeGette, who as a sitting Democratic member of Congress is a presidential superdelegate, pledged her support to Hillary Clinton last November. But in her CD-2 Democratic assembly acceptance speech Saturday, ColoradoPols reported that DeGette "said that she would not join in any super delegate cabal to overturn the will of the people as expressed by the popular and pledged delegate count."

Today we look at the economic platform of Democratic congressional candidates in Colorado.

Clearly the Dems in Colorado are positioning themselves as the party of economic opportunity in wake of the economic turmoil that has been evident since last June.  read more »

With Monday marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, Democratic congressional candidates in Colorado are united in supporting the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq - they just don't agree on how or when to go about it.

Tomorrow: the Iraq War views of Republican congressional candidates in Colorado

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Legistorm, the research service that provides transparency information regarding congressional staff salaries, financial disclosures and sponsored travel data was updated last month.  read more »

According to ratings released this month by Knowlegis, a division of Capitol Advantage, which runs the website congress.org, Colorado’s legislative delegation ranks 47th amongst the 50 states’ congressional delegations in power and influence.  read more »

With the Democrats looking to recapture the White House this November, many people are talking about nominating a Latino from a Western swing state for vice-president.

But they're not talking about Bill Richardson - they're looking at U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo).