Update: As of Wednesday at 5 pm, Dobersen’s margin of victory had dropped to under 300 votes. A mandatory recount is expected. And you thought the Buck-Bennett race was a squeaker? It may be days before veteran Arapahoe County Coroner Michael Dobersen finds out if he’s held onto his job,…
He may have finished in third place, but there is no reason to fear for Dan Maes’s future or pity his prospects. If the governor’s race taught us anything, it is that Dan’s greatest strength is résumé writing. From his former jobs to his current campaign, this is a man…
A winner wasn’t declared in the Michael Bennet-Ken Buck senate race until this morning due to a razor-thin margin of victory for Bennet, who’s making his victory announcement at City Park moments from now. In contrast, virtually every major news outlet in the state declared last night that Scott Tipton…
“There was a clear choice between Michael Bennet and Ken Buck,” says Trevor Kincaid, spokesman for the Bennet campaign. “They have two very different visions for our country, and Coloradans overwhelmingly chose common sense over extreme politics.” “Overwhelmingly”? That’s in the eye of the beholder…
Xcel’s evolving proposal to retire several aged coal-fired power plants to comply with a tough new Colorado law has been hailed as bold and innovative. But similar plans may soon be cropping up around the country as utilities face a new round of federal antipollution laws aimed at coal-belching plants…
Down the campaign stretch, Republican Senate hopeful Ken Buck’s been up to his neck in controversy, while incumbent Dem Michael Bennet has mostly avoided big mistakes — until yesterday. That’s when Bennet appeared on Peter Boyles’s KHOW talk show under the illusion that the Tom Tancredo-loving host would let him…
We know that Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes will be honking and waving on election day, and the campaign of Dem John Hickenlooper has announced he’ll be doing the same; look for him at three Denver locations beginning at 11:10 a.m. And American Constitution Party hopeful Tom Tancredo? Cliff Dodge,…
Sick of seeing all those “I Voted” stickers being smugly worn by civic do-gooders? Well, if you didn’t vote — or even if you did — take a stab at our Predictometer 2000, in which we’re asking readers to predict who they think will win (not who you voted for)…
Yesterday, Dan Maes’s campaign sent out a release announcing that he and “supporters” would be waving to passers-by at Eighth Avenue and Speer beginning at 4 p.m. — a pledge he kinda exceeded, kinda didn’t. When I drove past the spot at five minutes before 4, he was already there,…
It may be the closest political contest of any consequence anywhere in the country. It’s certainly one of the most expensive. As the U.S. Senate battle between Ken Buck and incumbent Michael Bennet enters its final hours, expect to be slimed by nasty ads about the spineless Obama stooge and…
Matt Arnold of Clear the Bench Colorado, which aims to throw the bums off Colorado’s Supreme Court, calls himself an “Army of one” — and appropriately, he’s been in plenty of battles lately. After losing a round to Colorado Ethics Watch and being forced to identify as a political committee,…
Michael Bennet’s camp knows turnout will decide if he retains his Senate seat or loses it to Ken Buck — and so does Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele. In conjunction with the launch of NoMoreFrankens.com, a website using the SNL performer turned Minnesota senator as a cautionary tale, Steele…
While Tom Tancredo’s campaign thinks the Denver Post is trying to drag John Hickenlooper’s carcass over the finish line in the guv race, Tanc has honor rally organizer Glenn Beck in his corner. On his radio show, Beck recently declared that if Tancredo was elected, he might move to Colorado,…
This morning’s Denver Post suggests that Tom Tancredo has injected a racial element into the gubernatorial campaign by inaccurately quoting President Barack Obama as having denigrated “bitter white people.” Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge argues that the paper’s goal in publishing pieces like these is to “drag the carcass of…
Westword photog Johnny Molfetta gets around. On the same day he took snaps of a drug-free-pledging kids at the Chatfield corn maze, he captured a tribute to civic obedience by Colorado Progressive Coalition and other groups at the Webb Building. The idea: to encourage folks to vote against ballot measures…
Various polls show the U.S. Senate race between Michael Bennet and Ken Buck to be among the nation’s deader heats. That means turnout will likely determine the winner — a situation seemingly to Buck’s advantage, since Republicans are perceived to be more enthusiastic this year and estimates show more GOP…
President Barack Obama’s extended interview on last night’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had some unexpected Colorado flavor. Not only did he specifically mention Congresswoman Betsy Markey, who’s in a difficult fight against Cory Gardner, but he also referenced former FEMA boss turned Denver talk-show host Michael Brown,…
So you’re happily listening to your custom-made MGMT station on Pandora Radio when suddenly a dude starts talking to you about elections and stuff and a photo of an earnest-looking guy pops into your track listing. What gives? Welcome to the brave new world of political advertising. Secretary of State…
These days, Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes isn’t getting much love in Colorado, where one poll shows him with just 5 percent support, to the delight of Tom Tancredo. But the national press he’s getting of late may be even uglier, with one major source wondering if he’s the nation’s…
In an unusual court filing, state senator and prominent GOP campaigner Shawn Mitchell states that his battle with anxiety and depression has made it difficult to get work done in his law practice and political life, leading to blown deadlines and missed hearings and campaign events. The affidavit, filed in…
Update: Leslie Oliver, campaign spokeswoman for Ed Perlmutter, says a recent attack ad inaccurately claiming that the 7th District congressman supported supplying Viagra to convicted rapists isn’t the first time an outside group called the American Action Network has battered him with a false ad. She stops short of calling…
We can expect plenty of over-the-top negative ads and low blows in the next few days as this gruesome election cycle enters its final days. But a mailer sent out by Republican statehouse candidate Libby Szabo, trying to paint Rep. Sara Gagliardi as a typical tax-and-spend Dem, is just plain…
