Tag: Bob Schaffer
Live: 2008 Colorado federal election results
Follow live Colorado election results courtesy of Google on the presidential and congressional races. Check our liveblog threads for the latest on state races and ballot measures.
Liveblog: Colorado election returns for president, Congress, state assembly
Throughout the evening, The Colorado Independent will be tracking election returns across the state for hotly contested races from the the presidency on down.
Will Democratic dominance doom the energy boom?
With Democrats poised to win Colorado’s second U.S. Senate seat, solidify their hold on the state legislature and possibly win commissioner seats in key energy-producing counties, former Republican congressman Scott McInnis warns the state’s natural-gas boom is about to bust.
Countdown to Election Day in pictures
Join us as we reminisce on this long campaign season beginning with the Colorado Republican Party's state convention to Election Day preparations in Denver.
Polls split on size of Udall lead over Schaffer in Colorado...
Two polls released Friday show Democrat Mark Udall with double-digit leads over Republican Bob Schaffer in the Colorado Senate race, but a third poll released Saturday night found Udall with a smaller edge, within the survey's margin of error.
Wadhams lowers expectations
Colorado Republican Chairman Dick Wadhams has pre-emptively conceded both houses of the state Legislature to the Democrats in what looks like an effort to drastically lower expectations for Election Day Tuesday. Leading off a Thursday interview with Channel 4, Wadhams said of his party's chances this year: "We've recruited some great candidates ... and I'm very optimistic about our chances. I don't believe we will win either house." Instead he said the goal has always been to "win control in 2010."
McInnis says he could have beaten Udall; predicts GOP bloodbath
Former six-term Republican congressman Scott McInnis Monday said his party would be en route to victory in the U.S. Senate race Nov. 4 if he hadn’t bowed out in March of last year for family reasons.
Unions announce flurry of pro-Udall mailings
A national labor organization will send a mailer supporting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall to tens of thousands of registered voters and unions members this week.
Udall steamrolls Schaffer by 13 points in Rocky-CBS4 poll
Democrat Mark Udall leads Republican Bob Schaffer 51 percent to 38 percent in the race for Colorado's open Senate seat, amassing winning margins among both sexes and all ages in a Rocky Mountain News-CBS4 poll released Sunday night. Udall trounces Schaffer among the state's unaffiliated voters — 62 percent to 20 percent — surpassing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's 58 percent support among the group, according to the same news organizations' poll released late last week.
Obama map tracks ‘under the radar’ attacks in Colorado
Taking a cue from Talking Points Memo, the Obama campaign put up an interactive map on Friday to track "some of the most toxic attacks" from the McCain campaign in the form of robocalls and printed material in Colorado and other battleground states.