Tag: U.S. Senate Race

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.

What with the "lipstick on a pig" having become the phrase o' the week, it's high time someone points out that U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer was glossing that sow's rim way back in May. At the Colorado state GOP convention in Broomfield, Schaffer uttered one his most memorable lines of his nominating speech when he mocked that "other party" for its claims of wanting change.

After a brief, unexplained delay, the YouTube You Choose Spotlight shines on the Colorado Senate race Tuesday as Rep. Mark Udall and former Rep. Bob Schaffer post videotaped answers to five questions submitted by YouTubers at You Choose '08.

Political fireworks punctuated a meeting of the Western Slope advocacy group Club 20 in Grand Junction over the weekend, with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall being booed by some audience members who were clearly more supportive of his Republican opponent, Bob Schaffer, according to the Grand Junction Free Press.

Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer plans to hit the trail this week after taking a break from campaigning while his wife, Maureen, underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor on her auditory nerve, the Rocky's Lynn Bartels reports.

YouTube's politics blog, CitizenTube, has a call out for questions to pose to U.S. Senate candidates Mark Udall and Bob Schaffer. Details on the flip. The deadine is Sunday, Aug. 31.

Amidst the DNC hoopla, Rep. Mark Udall spoke at a Democratic Senate Campaign Committee press conference in Denver. Udall is in a pitched battle with ex-Congressman Bob Schaffer for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Sen. Wayne Allard.

Judging by the volume and venom of TV attack ads in Colorado’s U.S. Senate race – mostly focused on the wildly divergent energy policies of Democratic Rep. Mark Udall and former Republican Rep. Bob Schaffer -- the state’s not only a key battleground in the presidential race but also the front line in the political struggle to dramatically reform the country’s outmoded energy policies.

Congressman Mark Udall Friday in Vail graciously resisted “piling on” Arizona Sen. John McCain for his now-infamous gaffe last weekend about wanting to renegotiate the Colorado River Compact, while the “cold, dead political carcass” of Udall’s Senate opponent, Bob Schaffer, nervously laughed off what McCain “may” have said to the Pueblo Chieftain.

Bob Schaffer will have the chance tomorrow to further distance himself from John McCain's disastrous suggestion to "renegotiate" the Colorado River Compact when he joins Mark Udall at the Colorado Water Congress Summer Convention in Vail. The two Senate candidates are scheduled to address water policy and take questions from water movers and shakers at 11 a.m. at the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort.