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Top campaign stories of 2010–You had to see it to believe it

By | 12.28.10 | 9:11 am

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…

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Crazy Colorado election exchanges feed Hotline’s annual quote list

By | 12.22.10 | 5:08 pm

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!

In lengthy Statesman interview, Wadhams fends off critics, weighs future

By | 11.24.10 | 1:01 pm

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…

A problem: Climate change remains mostly a political story

By | 11.24.10 | 11:44 am

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,…

Buck campaign undone by candidate positions not by gaffes

By | 11.22.10 | 1:46 pm

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…

Date rape story on Law & Order tonight

By | 11.17.10 | 5:00 pm

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…

Lunchtime links: Catholic students not OK with Church gay bashing

By | 11.16.10 | 11:50 am

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

Ken Buck discusses coordinated sliming by the left

By | 11.11.10 | 12:42 pm

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 agrees and disagrees with Wadhams about Bennet campaign

By | 11.10.10 | 11:22 am


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…

Talking point: The Tea Party is not about abortion

By | 11.08.10 | 11:13 am

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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