Tag: Bob Schaffer

A new voter snapshot released by Public Policy Polling spells good news for the Obama-Biden presidential ticket and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall with each campaign leading its opponent by 10 points overall and seemingly insurmountable leads with key constituency groups.

Republican Wayne Allard, retiring after two terms in the Senate, wants Colorado residents to know he has appreciated the cards and letters over the years but will no longer be taking e-mails from constituents. With more than three months to go before his successor is sworn in, Allard's Senate office this week posted a "thanks, but no thanks" valedictory from the former Fort Collins veterinarian.

Surprisingly, it was a civil debate. After 10 blistering exchanges where Senate candidates Republican Bob Schaffer and Democrat Mark Udall exchanged political potshots, the tone of the 11th debate on Tuesday was positively tame.

A campaign finance watchdog group unleashed a brutal attack on Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer on Tuesday, charging the former congressman with defending sweatshop operators at the behest of lobbyist Jack Abramoff in an ad set to air on Denver television stations. Campaign Money Watch also called on Schaffer to provide evidence for repeated claims he caused a sweatshop to shut down after his junket to the U.S. protectorate in the South Pacific.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall has a new ad out that tries to make light of the negative advertising that has come at him from "out of state" interests before picturing him in a field of autumn colored trees and a wooden fence. Cliche? Maybe.

Apparently Republican U.S. Senate candidate and former oil-and-gas executive Bob Schaffer didn’t get the party-line memo on Amendment 52 before Monday night’s debate with his Democratic opponent, Congressman Mark Udall.

Rep. Mark Udall, stumping in Edwards Sunday, came as close as he’ll likely ever come to saying “I told you so,” comparing his two "no" votes last week on the financial bailout package to his dissent on the Iraq War and the Patriot Act.

Hours before Democrat Mark Udall and Republican Bob Schaffer meet for a live, televised debate Monday night at the University of Denver, a Colorado Republican with a pair of famous Republican senatorial names plans to endorse the Democrat.

Thanks Jay Marvin, for having the Colorado Independent on your fabulous AM760 radio talk show this morning to talk about Richard Cizik, James Dobson and … unexpectedly, U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer and his trip to the Marianas Islands where he said he witnessed no forced abortions. For those who missed our original Sept. 22 interview with Cizik, the influential director of governmental affairs of the 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals, here is that link. In that interview, Cizik talks about Creation Care, presidential politics, Sarah Palin and his disappointment over John McCain’s lack of principle.

A statewide poll released Wednesday has presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain neck-and-neck in Colorado but shows Senate candidate Mark Udall 7 points ahead of Bob Schaffer, including a 21-point advantage on the Western Slope.