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Monday, January 13, 2025

Election 2024 Analysis: CU Denver Panel Series

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Beginning on September 6 and continuing to November 8, the CU Denver School of Public Affairs (SPA) hosted a series of panels on the 2024 election focused on Colorado. Floyd Ciruli, pollster and SPA Senior Fellow, developed the program and moderated three of the panels. The panels drew from some of Colorado’s top politicians, reporters and political analysts.

The panels and key participants were:

September 6 First Friday Breakfast: “Election 2024: Colorado and Country at a Crossroads”

Sheila MacDonald, media commentator, Democratic political consultants, manager of candidate and issue campaigns
Dick Wadhams, media commentator, Channel 4 analyst, consultant, former Republican chair
Marianne Goodland, chief legislative reporter, Colorado Politics, president of the Denver Press Club

October 11 “Colorado Direct Democracy Produces a Torrent of Proposals”

Seth Klamann, reporter Denver Post, covering statehouse, policy and elections
Kevin Flynn, Denver City Councilman, District 2 (southwest), former Rocky Mountain news reporter
Krista Kafer, opinion columnist, The Denver Post
Greg Sobetski, chief economist for Legislative Council with Colorado General Assembly

November 8 First Friday Breakfast: “What Happened & What Lies Ahead”

Chris Hanson, State Senator, Denver City/County
Barbara Kirkmeyer, State Senator, Weld County
Paul Teske, Dean, CU Denver SPA

Also, two additional panels were sponsored by SPA:

“Latin X Voters: Hold Sway” (October 4) with Paul Lopez, Denver, City/County Clerk Recorder and “Disinformation and the Perils of Election Administration” (October 25) with Matt Crane, Colorado County Clerks Association.

More than 500 students, academics, administrators and Colorado residents attended in person and online.

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Mr. Ciruli is president of Ciruli Associates, a public policy and research firm based in Denver, Colorado, and Orange County, California.

Mr. Ciruli is a Senior Fellow at the University Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs. He will join a lecture and panel program on the 2024 election. He has taught public opinion and media at the Denver School of Public Affairs.

Mr. Ciruli was the founding Director of the Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. He was an adjunct professor of public opinion and foreign policy.

Mr. Ciruli holds a law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and a bachelor’s degree cum laude in political science from UCLA. He is a member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), and is the past-president of the Pacific Chapter of AAPOR (PAPOR). Mr. Ciruli was vice-chair of the Social Science Foundation of the University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies and past-president of the Georgetown Law Alumni Board and the Denver Athletic Club.

Mr. Ciruli is widely known to Colorado audiences as a pollster and political analyst. In 2016, Mr. Ciruli was inducted into the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame.

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