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Udall tries to hold on to Senate seat in tight fight...

Efforts in the past two weeks in the dead-heat U.S. Senate race have focused on getting voters to mail in ballots and now to drop them directly at polling centers. It's all about turn out now.

JeffCo Election Day countdown: The view from the eye of the...

  HOLLY Lindsey is the voter all those TV ads are aimed at. She has lived nearly all her life in Jefferson County. She’s middle-class, churchgoing,...

Women’s issues experts to Udall, Gardner: That’s all you got?

Reproductive rights as an issue is a proxy for how empathic and clear-thinking the candidate is in terms of the role of women in the society. And that's not good enough.

Report shines light on outrageous Senate race spending

The spending on the U.S. Senate race is even more outrageous than you think. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is borrowing cash to get to Election Day. Republicans love the dark money.

Wives of Udall, Gardner powerful activists in their own right

  The two men running for U.S. Senate in Colorado have spent more time gabbing about birth control and abortion over the past four months...

Team Udall launches ‘Trick or Deceit’ online Gardner game for Halloween

  At least it's not a TV or radio ad, which would be really scary, given that Colorado is enduring a record plague of political...

Jeb Bush stumps at state GOP rally; Gardner still the star

“This really smells like Colorado!” Ken Buck exclaimed upon taking the podium Wednesday night at the Douglas County Fairground event center in Castle Rock....

Mike Keefe on Karl Rove as horror movie director

Does fear mongering like this really work?

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...

Millennials on millennials and Colorado’s midterm election

IN Clements Park in Littleton earlier this month, low turnout at a student-organized rally signaled that the fervor incited by the conservative Jefferson County...