Steve Ward

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.

In today's Inside Edge, we check in on the CO-6 race, because it gives us a good excuse to plug the CO-6 debate, sponsored by PolitickerCO. Our version even has the scenes deleted by PBS!

This Sunday at noon, Rocky Mountain PBS will broadcast a debate between the four Republican candidates for the 6th Congressional District.

The debate, held April 21 at the Southridge Recreation Center in Highlands Ranch, features businessman Wil Armstrong, Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, state Sen. Ted Harvey (R-Highlands Ranch) and state Sen. Steve Ward (R-Littleton) discussing issues from the Iraq War and reinstating the draft to taxes and immigration.

The candidates fielded questions posed by a panel of journalists, including Peter Jones of the Littleton Independent, Chris Rotar of the Highlands Ranch Herald, and Jeremy Pelzer of PolitickerCO.com.

PolitickerCO.com and the Sagebrush Forum sponsored the debate. Former state Sen. John Evans hosted the debate; former state Republican Party finance committee chair Mark Baisley moderated.

The debate is already online at PolitickerCO.com.

You know its Friday because you get the latest comments, emails and threats from Wally's World. In this supersized edition of Feedback, we talk about polls and endorsements. But we promise that because of the use chemical sweeteners in this column, it won't affect your weight loss plan. So read all you want! It's the weekend.     

Congressional candidate Mike CoffmanSecretary of State Mike Coffman has established a strong lead over his opponents in the Republican primary election for the state's 6th Congressional District, according to a post-Memorial Day internal survey.

Coffman now has a 28-point lead over his nearest challenger, businessman Wil Armstrong, in his bid to replace retiring Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, according to the report from the Tarrance Group.

In today's Inside Edge Wally looks at Comcast ads buys in the CO-6 race because frankly he likes when the supporters of Coffman and Armstrong post flaming comments about each other in the comments section.

A new poll released by 6th Congressional District Republican candidate Mike Coffman's campaign shows the Colorado Secretary of State with a wide lead over the other three GOP candidates in the race.

Coffman was favored by 47 percent of the 300 likely CO-6 GOP primary voters polled. Businessman Wil Armstrong polled 19 percent, state Sen. Ted Harvey received 7 percent, and state. Sen. Steve Ward polled 4 percent, according to numbers released by the Coffman campaign.

The poll, conducted May 27-28 by the Tarrance Group, had a margin of error of +/- 5.8%. The survey asked, "If the Republican primary election for Congress were held today and you had to make a choice, for whom would you vote?”

Coffman manager Dustin Zvonek also released a poll findings summary showing Coffman with a double-digit lead in each of the five counties in the 6th Congressional District and leading among senior citizens by 26 percentage points.

But Armstrong manager Jack Stansbery said in an e-mail that "it's premature to get excited about a poll this much before election day - before any real shots have been fired or anyone has begun an aggressive TV or mail program."

You know its Friday because you get the latest comments, emails, and threats from Wally's World. This week we expose a weasel that's been posting comments on the site. Or maybe we just expose a commentator that was pointing out weasels on the site. Either way it's quite fun this week and we hope you enjoy it.  

In this edition of weekly Winners & Losers, Mr. Irrelevant stays irrelevant, while a superdelegate does a super job in timing. We also poke some fun at our favorite Marine colonel, wonder how hard it is to get 6,000 signatures or even 1,000 signatures to make the ballot. So don’t miss this week’s cliff-hanger edition of Winners & Losers, by Wally Edge, who week in and week out, many of you think is always a loser.