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Maes, tea party bolster state GOP anti-establishment trend

By | 08.11.10 | 8:55 am

With 100 percent of the vote counted, Republican tea party favorite and Evergreen businessman Dan Maes continued the Colorado GOP trend of sweeping aside establishment frontrunners by defeating former six-term congressman Scott McInnis in Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary.

Maes won…

Incumbent Bennet wins big over Romanoff in ‘year of the non-politician’

By | 08.11.10 | 12:57 am

DENVER – In a race shaped more by background than policy, Sen. Michael Bennet broke away from challenger Andrew Romanoff early in the evening Tuesday to take the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a race many thought could have gone the other way.

Buck looks forward to uniting party in run against Bennet

By | 08.11.10 | 12:06 am

LOVELAND – Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck celebrated his primary win Tuesday night over Jane Norton as a victory for true conservative principles and the willingness to stand up for them against an unresponsive Washington culture of excess.

Buck defeats Norton in nailbiter GOP primary

By | 08.10.10 | 9:21 pm

LOVELAND– Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck defeated former Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton in a neck-and-neck race that saw the candidates separated only by a few percentage points most of the night. AP is reporting only a 3 percentage

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…

Buck team confident their candidate won early voting

By | 08.10.10 | 7:28 pm

In Loveland tonight at U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck’s Embassy Suites primary day party, the all-American music has been blaring for a half hour– Springsteen and Mellencamp and Journey and Boston. People are drinking Coors. Buck just walked in and…

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.

Colo. primary weekend preview: Fuming McCain rails against DADT repeal

By | 08.06.10 | 7:00 am

Arizona Senator John McCain is coming to Colorado this weekend to campaign for GOP U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton, who was a leading member of his presidential campaign team here in 2008. McCain lost the Colorado primary in a

Buck reiterates position opposing abortion in cases of rape and incest

By | 08.04.10 | 8:54 am

The Washington Post reports this morning that another Democratic Party tracker video of U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck is making waves, this one capturing the candidate saying he opposes abortion without exceptions for rape and incest. The only exception…