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Obama calls in to Colorado-based Spanish-language radio show

By | 05.22.12 | 3:35 pm

DENVER — When KBNO radio host Fernando Sergio launched his weekday Spanish-language talk show in 2004, you’d have been completely crazy to predict that the President of the United States would call in for a chat about seven years later.

At Colorado oil drilling site, Mitt Romney tries to apply heat to Obama’s energy policies

By | 05.09.12 | 2:31 pm

FT. LUPTON — Standing in front of an oil derrick and a tanker truck, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney attacked the Obama administration’s energy policies Wednesday, dismissing the fact that domestic oil production has gone up since the president took office.

Obama personalizes student loan message for cheery CU Boulder students

By | 04.25.12 | 6:56 am

BOULDER — President Barack Obama dropped into town Tuesday, swung by the Sink to pick up a pizza, and he tested out a young entrepreneur’s smart phone-controlled ball on University Hill before imparting a few words of wisdom to 11,000 screaming students at the nearby Coors Event Center.

Obama opens double-digit lead over Romney in Colorado

By | 04.10.12 | 2:54 pm

A poll released today by Public Policy Polling shows that President Barack Obama has widened his lead over Romney substantially in Colorado.

Rubio’s DREAM alternative as unpopular on the right as on the left

By | 04.07.12 | 5:33 am

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., stirred up the immigration debate last week when he announced a proposal to offer a “conservative-Republican alternative” to the DREAM Act, but it might not be enough for “attrition through enforcement” supporters, including Mitt Romney and his immigration advisor Kris Kobach.

VIDEO: New ad ties Romney to Big Oil

By | 04.04.12 | 5:01 am

Priorities USA Action this week released an ad it says reveals Mitt Romney’s ties to Big Oil companies. According to Priorities, dedicated to protecting progressive leaders against what they call “misleading attacks,” the true motivation for Big Oil’s criticism of President Obama is to elect Mitt Romney, who the group says “stands to protect Big Oil’s profits at the expense of middle class Americans.”

An Obama campaign top priority: Chasing Colorado youth vote

By | 04.03.12 | 5:30 am

BOULDER– National leaders of the Obama reelection campaign recently told students gathered on the University of Colorado campus here that winning swing-state Colorado is among the highest priorities for the campaign and that youth voters are the linchpin in this year’s victory strategy.

GOP plans to roll out conservative version of DREAM Act

By | 04.01.12 | 5:35 am

GOP elected officials, including Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are working on “a conservative-Republican alternative” to the DREAM Act, in an effort to reach out to Latino voters before the November presidential election.

As GOP continues attacks on EPA, Jackson presents budget to Senate

By | 03.23.12 | 1:57 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson this morning told the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that a high percentage of EPA’s budget goes directly to states and tribes to ensure high air and water quality throughout the country.

Colorado’s Latino voters could be key in run to the White House

By | 03.19.12 | 5:09 am

In Colorado and a handful of other swing states, the Hispanic vote is expected to be a key factor in this year’s presidential election. As Republican campaign rhetoric around immigration has continued to turn off many Latino voters, some GOP strategists are suggesting the eventual Republican nominee can appeal to Hispanics by focusing on economic issues.