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In race to win diverse swing Senate District 25, May, Priola relish long-march door-to-door
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There’s really no other effective way to do it. People tune out TV and radio and mailers are quickly recycled. You have to go door to door, meeting the residents, chatting them up, listening to their concerns, doing what you can to win them over or at least make sure that, when they’re staring down…
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Colorado, national conservatives reflect at Denver RedState Gathering
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In an unorthodox election year, conservative Republicans had something to get pumped up about this last weekend in Denver. While some pollsters claim Colorado has lost its political classification as a battleground state this election cycle, RedState.com, an unabashedly conservative blog, chose Colorado’s biggest city to rally – and in some cases even console –…
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Glenn rejects ‘pivoting toward center’ as he moves past GOP Senate primary
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In an unpredictable political year and on the heels of his upset win in last month’s primary, Republican Darryl Glenn is counting on the same mix of straight talk and shoe leather that propelled him from underdog status to U.S. Senate nominee to help him topple Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. It’ll be a tough…
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Bennet swamps GOP Senate hopefuls in pre-primary fundraising
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THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet raised $1.65 million – more than 10 times as much as any of the Republicans hoping to unseat him – in the most recent reporting period, pre-primary finance reports show, although GOP candidate Jack Graham wrote his campaign a check for $500,000, bringing his self-funding total…
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Colorado AFL-CIO won’t endorse Bennet in U.S. Senate race
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The state’s largest coalition of labor unions voted on Saturday to sit out Colorado’s U.S. Senate race rather than endorse U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet because of the Democrat’s position on a controversial international trade agreement. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership weighed heavily on our affiliates’ decision to remain neutral in the U.S. Senate race,” said Sam Gilchrist, executive…
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Bennet will have a fight, but how much of one is TBD
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There is a reason so many Republican candidates are in the race to take a shot at unseating Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet … besides the fact the GOP’s stronger top-tier bench of candidates all decided not to run. Colorado’s open Senate seat is one of nine seats nationwide that has been identified as competitive,…
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Not Udall: Bennet launches air campaign with down-home, upbeat ad
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has launched his re-election air-offensive in the state’s largest television markets, and his first ad says a lot about the strategy he has adopted for the early campaign. The 30-second spot features lowing beef cattle in corrals somewhere in blue-sky high-plains Colorado. The ad is upbeat and informative. Bennet opens and…
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The Hot Sheet, March 8, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Tuesday, March 8, 2016DENVER — In case you didn’t turn on any device yesterday, Michael Bloomberg will not be seeking a third party (or any) run for the presidency in 2016. Oh yes, and all the five of the Republican’s gun bills were smothered in House State…
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Hillman lists lessons learned in Senate minority, transportation gets a subcommittee
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Assistant Senate Minority Leader Mark Hillman shared the “Lessons of a minority senator” he said he’d learned after the Democrats took the gavel in the upper chamber in January for the first time in decades. “In my days as a sportswriter,” he wrote, “this was…
