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AP reports Buck first lead over Norton

By | 08.10.10 | 8:03 pm

With 58 percent of counties reporting, AP lists Buck as taking a 51 percent to 49 percent lead in the GOP U.S. Senate primary. Roughly 300 people have filed into the ballroom in Loveland and they let out a room-rocking…

Top Colorado primary race results may be hazy for weeks

By | 08.10.10 | 2:44 pm

** Updated below with new numbers

The hot primary contests for U.S. Senate pitting Michael Bennet against Andrew Romanoff on the Democratic side and Ken Buck against Jane Norton on the Republican side may not be decided until well after…

Poll: Bennet would lead in general election

By | 08.10.10 | 11:25 am

Tom Jensen has released a Primary Day report on a Public Policy Polling survey that found Coloradans don’t like any of their options for U.S. Senate. Sen. Michael Bennet is the leader among the unloved. In a general election, Jansen…

U.S. Senate primary: grassroots vs insiders, but who’s who?

By | 08.10.10 | 11:09 am

With two close primary races for the U.S. Senate, some Colorado voters will go to the polls today or drop off last-minute mail-in ballots to determine who will battle it out in November. The vast majority of votes in what could be a record for a primarily mail-in election are already in. And the candidates for both parties would have voters believe that what’s at stake is the soul of the state – grassroots, western self-determination versus entrenched, inside-the-Beltway career political cronyism.

Clinton records robo-call for Romanoff

By | 08.09.10 | 2:23 pm

Former President Bill Clinton recorded a message in support of former Colorado State House Speaker Andrews Romanoff that is being sent out by robocall today to Democratic voters across the state.

Garcia felt he could help students, Latinos more in higher office

By | 08.07.10 | 4:47 pm

“When you get the first draft pick, you go after the best athlete,” Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently said of his choice of Colorado State University-Pueblo President Joe Garcia as his running mate in the race for the governor’s office in November.

VIDEO: Bennet says Times got DPS deal wrong

By | 08.06.10 | 1:16 pm

The New York Times waded into the Colorado Democratic U.S. Senate primary Thursday with a lengthy investigative piece detailing a flashy Denver Public Schools interest-swap refinance deal brokered in part by U.S. Senator Michael Bennet as superintendent. The Times story of a stacked transaction that produced windfall profits for the banks but catastrophe for the schools has given new life to questions raised by Bennet detractors about his relationship to big money. The Bennet campaign says the Times simply got the story wrong.

Shadowy 527 running ads attacking Bennet

By | 08.04.10 | 10:49 am

A newly-organized 527 group with dubious origins is running factually inaccurate radio ads against Sen. Michael Bennet (D).

The group, called New Leadership For Colorado, is running two ads on radio that sound like breaking news bulletins, charging that Bennet…

Obama, likely reacting to polling, endorses Bennet on teleconference

By | 08.04.10 | 10:25 am

On a town-hall style press conference call Tuesday night, President Barack Obama joined Sen. Michael Bennet to present his reasons Democratic voters should choose the incumbent Democratic senator as their candidate over former state Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff in Tuesday’s primary election.

Romanoff will not accept PAC-tainted dollars from DSCC

By | 08.04.10 | 10:08 am

Sen. Michael Bennet’s campaign jumped on a story by Politico that had Romanoff Campaign Manager Bill Romjue stating that they had made no decision yet on whether to take Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee funds that are tainted with Political Action Committee dollars, and then reversed that decision a day later saying that in fact they would accept those donations. Romanoff’s campaign said a communication error had occured.