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Get Them All Out: Colorado Dems bet big on ground game

  TEN miles west of Denver, Shawna Fritzler’s upper-middle-class development blooms on a rural two-lane road peppered by occasional crumbling farmhouses. This conservative hamlet in...

Udall, Hancock, Webb take a walk to the ballot mailbox

  DENVER — Early this morning, Democratic candidates and leaders gathered with a few dozen supporters in Denver's Five Points neighborhood to walk the talk on campaigns...

Bennet pleads case at CU Boulder: ‘If you vote, we win’

BOULDER -- Swinging through University Memorial Center on the CU-Boulder campus minutes ago, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet pleaded soft and loud for students here...

Colorado Election Day smackdown: Tea Party enthusiasm versus progressive infrastructure

Republicans expect this year's Tea Party enthusiasm to translate to enormous victories for the GOP tonight. Yet evidence on the ground seems to be confirming what some political analysts have been saying for a while: that Tea Party enthusiasm is no substitute for well-organized political movement infrastructure. The fact that the U.S. Senate race in Colorado pitting Tea Party GOP candidate Ken Buck against unloved Democrat Michael Bennet is so close down the stretch speaks volumes, according to longtime Republican Party strategist Ford O'Connell.

Bennet, Hickenlooper, Udall, Pena rally the troops Sunday

The big guns were out in force for the Democrats Sunday at a get out the vote rally near Colfax and Kipling in Lakewood. Both...