Is it really time to line up for Colorado’s next senate race? Senator Mark Udall will be up for re-election in 2014, assuming he runs again. Friday, U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, sent out a fundraising letter on behalf of herself and Colorado’s own Jane Norton.
Ayotte, the former More…
If the GOP had just run Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware, Sue Lowden in Nevada and Jane Norton in Colorado, they’d be looking at an evenly split Senate right now. At least that’s the message that establishment Republicans, frustrated with the Tea Party and its Senate cheerleader, Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), More…
With thousands of votes still to be tallied, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has won the first political campaign of his life — and it was a political battle for the history books. He beat back a serious Democratic Party primary challenge and emerged victorious in the general election this morning More…
Five years ago, Colorado’s GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck refused to prosecute a rape case while acting as Weld County District Attorney, reports our sister site the Colorado Independent, and with three weeks before the election, all the lurid details are getting dredged up once again:
The alleged assault
The Nevada Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission on Wednesday against the state’s Senate GOP candidate Sharron Angle and her onetime primary competitor Danny Tarkanian. The complaint alleges that Tarkanian violated FEC rules by campaigning for Angle and running a political committee against Senate Majority More…
Despite Colorado GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck’s promise to adopt a positive stance in his political ads (leaving groups like Crossroads GPS to do the dirty work against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) for him), the Colorado Independent reports that Buck’s very first ad is surprisingly…negative:
Two big, competing narratives are dominating media coverage of the upcoming 2010 elections. The first is that the GOP primaries keep producing candidates who are too wacky to be electable. The second is that the populace is so pessimistic about the economy and cynical about Washington that they just might More…
As Colorado gets set to vote tomorrow, the New York Times notes how both Senate primaries, once considered cakewalks for their presumptive party favorite — Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and former lieutenant governor Jane Norton (R-Colo.) — have now become the latest proving ground of anti-establishment, anti-Washington fervor.
Colorado has seen a significant political turnaround in the last two years. In 2008, 54 percent of the state’s population voted for Barack Obama; since then, it has become the Tea Party movement’s leading bastion. But Colorado Tea Partiers are having a bad day today. Politicians favorable to More…
Even though virtually all congressional Republicans — including the party’s Senate and House leadership — praised President Obama’s handling of the removal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his selection of Gen. David Petraeus to replace him as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a few Republican congressional hopefuls used the More…
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