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Post column gets it wrong: Buck has been talking social issues

Denver Post editorial page editor Dan Haley got a fact wrong in his column Sunday. He wrote in reference to Colorado’s U.S. Senate race: “No one...

Question of the week: Would Buck have voted for Social Security?

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet’s recent TV ad claims that GOP challenger Ken Buck has “even questioned whether Social Security should exist at all.” The...

Buck not alone in opposing morning-after pill even in cases of...

The Denver Post on Sunday became the first major news outlet in Colorado, with the exception of the Associated Press, to report that Ken...

Journalists implicity excuse extreme political positions by labeling them as ‘personal’

GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck is telling reporters that his support of a ban on abortion, even in the case of rape and incest,...

Romanoff: Supporting Bennet over Buck ‘an easy call’ for Democrats

DENVER -- Colorado Democratic leaders and national party officials united Thursday on the steps of the Colorado capitol to try to heal the wounds created in what many saw as a bloody Democratic primary race. Sen. Michael Bennet joined with primary challenger Andrew Romanoff to proclaim a united front in the siege on Bennet's Senate seat - a seat Bennet said was in a precarious position without the help of those supporters who once filled the phone banks and campaign headquarters of the Romanoff camp.

U.S. Senate primary: grassroots vs insiders, but who’s who?

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.

Bennet campaign dismisses poll showing recent Romanoff surge

Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff has pulled even with Sen. Michael Bennet (D) for the first time, according to a Denver Post/9 News...

Bennet, Romanoff supporters clash over ads, voting records

Democratic camps collided over the weekend when supporters of U.S. Senate candidates Andrew Romanoff and incumbent Michael Bennet traded chants and jibes as Bennet challenged a Romanoff attack ad that condemns Bennet for looting a movie chain and costing thousands of jobs. Bennet said the ad casts aspersions; Romanoff's campaign said Bennet was a hypocrite.

Former majority leader Gordon pounds pavement for Romanoff

During election season, you never know who’s going to knock on your door. If you’re a Democrat in Southeast Denver, though, it may well be Ken Gordon.

Poll: Buck, Norton still edging Bennet, Romanoff in Senate race

In the Colorado race for U.S. Senate, Republicans Ken Buck and Jane Norton hold narrow leads over Democrats Michael Bennet, the incumbent, and Andrew...