Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 8/12
To receive the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest via email each weekday, sign up here.
Senate:
• CT-Sen: I'm telling you, if it winds up being Shays vs. McMahon, I'm going to enjoy this primary. Just a day after Roll Call reported that Chris Shays ...
Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams, ‘Tired of the Nuts,’ Steps Down
Filed under: Republicans, Independents, 2010 Elections, Tea Party, 2012 ElectionsWadhams was criticized in November after Democrats won two key victories -- a Senate seat and the Denver mayor's office -- in what was otherwise a banner election for the ...
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper: Beer, Bipartisanship in his Blood
Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Governors, 2010 ElectionsDenver's ex-mayor has filled his cabinet with Republicans as well as Democrats. Is the business-friendly Democrat the new model for making government work? Permalink | Email t...
Republicans’ Midterm Wave Didn’t Drown Colorado Democrats
Filed under: House, Democrats, Ads, Fundraising, Governors, Conservatives, Tea PartyThe GOP unseated two House Democrats, but the big wins -- the U.S. Senate and the governorship -- went in the blue column. Colorado Republicans are still conducting the...
Democrat Hickenlooper Cruises in Crazy Colorado Governor Race
The moderate mayor's first GOP opponent was sidelined by plagiarism charges, and American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo made some reckless statements. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Interview: Michael Bennet on Colorado Politics and Challenger Ken Buck
Filed under: Democrats, Obama Administration, 2010 Elections, Congress, Campaigns, Interview VideoThe freshman senator, appointed to the job, faces the worst of both worlds: he's painted as a Washington insider, yet has little first-hand political expe...
Interview: Michael Bennet on Colorado Politics and Challenger Ken Buck
Filed under: Democrats, Obama Administration, 2010 Elections, Congress, CampaignsThe freshman senator, appointed to the job, faces the worst of both worlds: he's painted as a Washington insider, yet has little first-hand political experience from which...
Video Interview: Tom Tancredo Charts His Own Path in Governor’s Race
Filed under: Tea Party, Immigration, Interview VideoAs the Republican field of candidates in Colorado imploded, former congressman Tancredo stepped up with a third-party run, heavy on conservative issues like cracking down on illegal immigration. ...
CO-Sen, Gov: PPP–Buck/Bennet too close to call, Hickenlooper leads
Colorado is divided into almost equal thirds, politically. Unaffiliated voters there have as much vote power as Republicans and Dems and run the gamut from right of the teabaggers to left of Michael Moore. They also hold the keys to the Colorado Senate race, according to PPP's new poll, because Bennet and Buck both...
Exclusive Interview: Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper on Governor Campaign
Filed under: Immigration"People are worried, understandably," Hickenlooper says to Politics Daily. "But I would tell them that we are all in this together." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
CO-Gov: Tancredo sez it’s "elitist" for elected people to think they should do their job
In a massive ocean of crazy, Tom Tancredo manages to once again rise above the rest.
TANCREDO: It is an attitude that you see all the time. Yes, I spent 10 years in Congress. I could certainly see it there. There is a sort of an elitist idea that seeps...
