While the GOP had hoped the 7th District would become more favorable after redistricting — when the west-metro Denver seat gained more rural western counties — it’s kept its blue shine.

Denver City Council special election candidates’ overlapping views leave a difficult decision to Denverites in a crowded race. But clear front-runners are emerging by other measures.

Amendment 82 would enshrine the right to use natural gas for heating and cooking in homes and businesses.

Glen Krutz, a political science professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, said he couldn’t even find polling in the 6th District race, which indicated that it was not on the radar of the national political parties.

Democrat Phil Weiser, if he wins the race for Colorado governor, would likely have big blue majorities eager for a post-Gov. Polis world — and a massive budget deficit to fill.

Republican Victor Marx, if he wins the race for Colorado governor, says he’s bring accountability to state government as a conservative. But how he’d govern is less clear, given a murky campaign.

The Republican vice president said Friday “I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen.”

The man was shot in the neck as he drove his car with a 5-year-old boy inside, officials said.