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WATCH: Biden to Obama on health reform: ‘This is a big f@#$ing deal’

By | 03.23.10 | 3:49 pm

Well, it just wouldn’t feel like Tuesday unless the vice president dropped an F-bomb into an open mic on live TV. Speaking this morning at the health care reform bill signing ceremony, Joe Biden turned to President Barack Obama,…

Biden backs Owens, slams Limbaugh in heated New York race

By | 11.02.09 | 11:27 am

WATERTOWN, N.Y. – Rallying support for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens before Tuesday’s special election in NY-23, Vice President Joe Biden today told a mostly full room at the North Side Improvement League to “teach a lesson” to right-wing activists. Ideological activists, said Biden, forced Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava out of the race because they couldn’t brook “dissent with their neoconservative views.”

Joe Biden talks jobs, jobs, jobs in Denver

By | 05.26.09 | 2:19 pm

We’re tweeting Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks on the Middle Class Task Force in Denver today:


Ritter’s remarks at stimulus bill signing in Denver

By | 02.17.09 | 4:52 pm

From the governor’s office, here are the remarks as prepared for delivery by Gov. Bill Ritter, who introduced Vice President Joe Biden before President Barack Obama took the stage Tuesday afternoon at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science:

Former Denver archbishop: ‘Catholics weep over Barack Obama,’ abortion

By | 11.21.08 | 10:13 am

Roman Catholic Cardinal James Francis Stafford, who was Denver’s archbishop until being tapped for a Vatican position in 1996, warned a university audience President-elect Barack Obama’s “anti-life agenda” on abortion is “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic,” in an address reported Thursday by the Catholic News Agency. Stafford told students at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., that the next few years will be “among the most divisive in our nation’s history” because Americans were distracted by the prospect of electing an African-American president from Obama’s “deadly vision of human life.”

Colorado Latinos turned out in record numbers

By | 11.10.08 | 7:25 am

Latino voters turned out in record numbers in Colorado this year, more than doubling their turnout since 2004, according to recent polling data.

More than 330,000 Latinos voted in the state last week, compared with 165,000 in 2004, based on exit polling from media outlets like the Wall Street Journal and Voto Latino, a national nonprofit organization that organized Latino voting drives in the state.

Liveblog: Colorado election returns for president, Congress, state assembly

By | 11.04.08 | 7:00 pm

Throughout the evening, The Colorado Independent will be tracking election returns across the state for hotly contested races from the the presidency on down.

Countdown to Election Day in pictures

By | 11.04.08 | 6:23 am

Join us as we reminisce on this long campaign season beginning with the Colorado Republican Party’s state convention to Election Day preparations in Denver.

McCain and Palin play the blame game

By | 10.31.08 | 2:02 pm

A few days ago Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin went off script about her $150,000 shopping spree, much to the chagrin of John McCain’s staffers. Now, according to Roger Simon of the Politico, “John McCain’s campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday. And it has decided on Sarah Palin.”

Political rallies get ugly but Colorado spared as Election Day nears

By | 10.28.08 | 9:20 am

The acrimony on the presidential campaign trail has reached new lows in distortions, misinformation and irresponsible racially and religiously coded attacks by pundits, campaign staffers, surrogates and the candidates themselves.