This was a year of surprises in Colorado politics, from the announcement that Governor Ritter would not seek re-election to the paper-thin victory of sitting Senator Michael Bennet over Tea Party favorite Ken Buck, Colorado went months without a dull…
It will come as no surprise to local politics watchers that National Journal Hotline writers Wednesday turned up quotes from Colorado’s wacky midterm election campaigns to complete a list of the top political quotes of the year. U.S. Senate candidates Michael Bennet, Ken Buck and Andrew Romanoff made the list. So did gubernatorial candidates Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo. Of course they did!
The Colorado Statesman this week published a massive interview with Colorado GOP Chair Dick Wadhams. The reading is good but, for the most part, the information he relates is not that new.
It’s a good read, and the…
One of the standout moments in the last weeks of the heated U.S. Senate race in Colorado pitting Republican Ken Buck against Democrat Michael Bennet came when Buck appeared on the stump with famous climate-change-denying U.S. Senator James Inhofe,…
In the general election, GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck denounced the Democratic party video trackers he said followed him everywhere, catching him spitting out soundbites he said could be taken out of context and made to seem extreme. As…
Tonight’s episode of Law & Order SVU (8 pm, NBC) offers a prime-time look at date rape. The episode, titled “Gray” because of the gray areas involved, has a special place in the minds and hearts of some of the…
In Minnesota, some smart Catholic school kids at Benilde-St. Margaret’s took issue with the anti-gay propaganda sent out by their archdiocese. They picked the propaganda apart in a school website editorial, which they posted alongside a personal essay…
Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck says he was slimed by last-minute ads that distorted who he is.
Unlike Colorado Republican Chair Dick Wadhams, he said the Democratic ground game made a huge difference in an election he expected to…
Politico on Tuesday named incumbent Michael Bennet’s campaign for the U.S. Senate one of its top ten campaigns of the year. Writer David Catanese agreed and disagreed with Colorado GOP Chair Dick Wadhams on what happened here last…
In a Q&A hosted by the Washington Post last week, Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks– the multimillion dollar Dick Armey advocacy group that fueled the Tea Party movement– said GOP Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck lost his…
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