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No silver bullets: Jim Carpenter stresses fundamentals, agility
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Jim Carpenter likes to tell a story about a campaign stop more than two decades ago in a small town on the Eastern Plains. It’s no coincidence the story stars former three-term Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, a man Carpenter describes as the master of quick thinking and innovative approaches to the surprises any politician is…
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Get your ballots ready: Voting in White House race underway
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Get ready: Voting in the 2016 election is now underway. Advance voting begins Friday in North Carolina, the first of 37 states that will allow balloting by mail for any reason or in person before the actual Election Day of Nov. 8. It’s part of a nearly nine-week campaign frenzy in which millions of voters…
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GOP woos veterans, but Trump has rubbed some vets wrong way
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It was more than a routine get-out-the-vote knock on the door when Iraq War veteran and Nevada Republican Party staffer Jon Staab asked Kenneth Olofson, a Vietnam veteran, if he’ll be voting for Donald Trump. An instant bond was formed as the two swapped stories of service and those of relatives who fought in World War…
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What If: Could the GOP abandon Trump and focus on Congress?
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What if the Republican Party turns its back on its presidential nominee? The possibility that the Republican National Committee might abandon Donald Trump is remote. It’s been discussed informally, though, by party leaders across the country in recent weeks. They fear the RNC could be wasting money and labor on a presidential candidate who has…
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What If: Could Clinton win it before Election Day?
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Election Day isn’t what it used to be. The presidential winner may be all but known by then, thanks to early voting. Beginning Friday, residents in North Carolina can submit absentee mail-in ballots – the first of 37 states and the District Columbia to vote by mail or at polling sites before Nov. 8. Four…
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Trump debuts first Colorado TV ad, hits Clinton on economy
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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is hitting the airwaves with $10 million in television ads set to air over the next week in nine battleground states, including Colorado, campaign officials announced Monday. The campaign said it would begin airing a new 30-second ad depicting Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s economic policies as “more of the same –…
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Nevada becomes one of Trump’s big hopes for swing state win
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Russ Wheeler bears the financial scars of Nevada’s lost decade, and he hopes Donald Trump can heal them. He worked for a Las Vegas roofing company when the real estate bust crushed the state’s economy. He took two pay cuts before getting laid off. He had to commute into the California desert to find work after that.…
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As Trump tries minority outreach, many blacks unconvinced
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Black Republicans cheer Donald Trump for a newfound outreach to African-Americans, but say the GOP presidential nominee must take his message beyond arenas filled with white supporters and venture into the inner cities. Many rank-and-file black voters, meanwhile, dismiss the overtures as another racially charged pitch from a campaign aimed exclusively at whites, from Trump’s…
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Challenge for GOP senators: Surviving a possible Trump loss
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A key question looms for vulnerable Republican senators this election: If Donald Trump loses and loses big, can they still survive? With 11 weeks until Election Day, Trump’s declining standing in the polls has GOP Senate candidates preparing for the worst, and they’re maneuvering now to put as big a margin as they can between themselves and the top…
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Clinton having a quiet August, and for her, that’s just fine
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It’s no day at the beach, but Hillary Clinton is having the political equivalent of a quiet August. Donald Trump may be dominating the political chatter as he reboots a trailing campaign, but it’s Clinton who’s winning positive headlines during visits to some of the most competitive states in the presidential race. The Republican nominee’s constant state of campaign…
