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By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyEducation Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday he'll hit the campaign trail next month to stump for Democrats in the midterm elections. Duncan will "support candidates that really care about education," he told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. Among those Duncan will back in October are Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello and Illinois Senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias. He predicted that Bennet has "a chance to be a fantastic voice for education in the Senate for decades to come. So I feel great about supporting a good candidate like ...
Latest Polling in Colorado, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCNN/Time/Opinion Research has released polls of seven governor and Senate races in four much-watched states: Delaware, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. There are no big surprises in the results compared to other polls. Notable is the fact that the Republican candidates are winning among independents in five races, and the two where that is not the case have special twists: Delaware, where controversial Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell scored an upset in winning the GOP Senate nomination, and the Colorado governor race, which has become a three-way affair. All the polls were of ...
Tea Party Candidate Ken Buck Backtracks on Abortion
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyColorado's GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, Ken Buck, appears to be backing away from pro-life positions he took during the primary campaign. According to the Denver Post, No longer would Buck introduce a constitutional amendment to ban abortion -- though he says he would still support one -- and he now says he would be willing to vote to confirm even pro-choice judicial nominees. Earlier this year, Buck answered another survey saying he would never confirm "pro-abortion" candidates for any government job, including judgeships. But last week, he drew a distinction between pro-choice and ...
Colorado Senate Hopefuls Buck, Bennet Spar Over Tax Cuts
By not in system - AOL NewsGRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Sept. 12) - Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado says tax cuts for the middle class should be extended, but he disagreed with his Republican challenger over tax cuts for the rich in the first debate. Republican Ken Buck insisted during the Saturday night debate that tax cuts scheduled to expire in January should be extended even for the wealthy. The first debate between the two candidates was largely cordial, although the two bickered near the end over an attack ad being aired by Bennet. The ad uses snippets of Buck's remarks to describe him as too conservative. ...
The 2010 Midterm Elections: A Roundup of News From the Front Lines
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIn Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell is trying to tie the Republicans to what he sees as the rise of candidates and activists on their fringe, while in Florida, Republicans at all levels of this year's elections are doing what they can to link their opponents to President Obama. Colorado's endangered Democratic senator, Michael Bennet, is keeping some careful distance from Obama and national Republicans are moving to embrace their came-out-of-nowhere Senate nominee in Alaska, Joe Miller. Pennsylvania Rendell Says "The Wacko Wing" is Taking Over the GOP Outgoing Democratic Gov. Ed ...
Colorado GOP Makes Last Push to Get Dan Maes Out of Gov's Race
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyThe heat is on Colorado Republican Dan Maes to drop out of the race for governor, with several prominent supporters, including some Tea Party members, withdrawing their support this week. But Maes, who beat former congressman Scott McInnis in the primary, showed up Thursday for a three-way debate with Democratic candidate and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and American Constitution Party hopeful and former congressman Tom Tancredo. Arriving at the debate, Maes told the Colorado Independent he would stay in the race. Thursday morning, Maes tweeted, "Do not waiver! Never quit!" In a longer ...
Campaign Ad Wars: The Cliches of 2010
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThis is the last week that most Americans can turn on their TV sets and be comforted by such familiar cultural touchstones as party-on beer commercials and advertisements for desperate, must-clear-our-inventory car dealers. By Labor Day, it will be all political spots all the time in our biennial celebration of the right to vote – and the hazards to sanity that come with it. Campaign commercials tend to be about as predictable as Paris Hilton's denials after an arrest. We are all sadly familiar with the security-camera videos, the voice-of-doom narration and the horror-movie music that ...
Democrats Look to Lose 6 to 7 Senate Seats, One Forecast Predicts
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyDemocrats have over a 50 percent probability of losing in seven Senate races in this year's midterm elections, cutting deeply into their current 59-member majority, according to the latest forecast by polling analyst and statistical guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. (Two of the members counted in that current majority are independents Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernard Sanders of Vermont). However, Silver forecasts only a 20 percent chance that Democrats will lose 10 or more seats, which would cost them control of the Senate. Silver's modeling shows a new Senate made up of 52.4 ...
Ken Buck Leads Colorado Senate Race; Tom Tancredo Scrambles Governor's Contest
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican Senate candidate and Tea Party favorite Ken Buck has a 49 percent to 40 percent lead among likely voters over Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet with 10 percent undecided, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Aug. 20-22. The margin of error is 4.6 points. Buck's margin is smaller when all registered voters are tested -- 44 percent to 40 percent with 15 percent undecided. The margin of error in this case is 4 points. In the governor's race -- which is now a three-way -- affair, former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo's presence as a third party candidate is throwing a big monkey ...
Democrats Plan October Ad Blitz for Senate Races in Four States
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyKeep your remote close. Come October, voters in four key states can expect to be bombarded by television ads for Democratic Senate candidates. A Republican strategist who tracks ad buys by the opposition tells The Hill that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will spend millions on TV airtime in Missouri, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Colorado. The committee could shell out more than $4 million in Kentucky and Missouri alone, in ads hammering Republicans, according to The Hill: In Missouri, Rep. Roy Blunt, the GOP Senate nominee, was a strong proponent of the financial bailout bill, ...
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