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• Ken Buck to give up 2 months pay while he campaigns

  August 24, 2010 8:36 AM

  Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck plans to give up two months pay while he campaigns for the U.S. Senate. He earns $140,000 a year and will give up $11,666 in pay for September and October. Buck says he'll stay in regular contact with his office while he campaigns... more »

• Primary Election: Senator waits to hear if he'll keep job

  August 10, 2010 8:18 AM

  Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is the latest incumbent senator battling for his job. Bennet faces former Colorado House speaker Andrew Romanoff in a primary challenge Tuesday marked by the anti-establishment mood seen in every corner of the nation. Republicans have their own outsider-versus-insider Senate story line. Former... more »

• 'Trackers' could throw Colorado election

  August 9, 2010 9:24 AM

  They're as common at campaign stops as colorful banners: hand-held cameras wielded by politicians' opponents to catch them making a stupid mistake. So how come candidates keep getting tripped up by "trackers" who record their every move? Trackers have been credited for spoiling campaigns from Virginia to Nevada. ... more »

• John McCain in Colorado campaigning for Jane Norton

  August 9, 2010 8:38 AM

  Arizona Sen. John McCain urged Colorado Republicans to choose Jane Norton in next week's Senate GOP primary, saying "we need a lot of help" in the Senate. McCain met with reporters in a Denver suburb Sunday morning before flying to Grand Junction with Norton for a rally. Norton, a... more »

• John McCain to campaign for Jane Norton in Colo.

  August 4, 2010 8:33 AM

  Arizona Sen. John McCain is headed to Colorado this weekend to campaign for Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton. A spokeswoman for Norton says McCain will be in Grand Junction and the Denver suburbs Sunday for fundraisers and public rallies for Norton. Colorado Republicans are choosing between Norton and Weld... more »

• Obama pleads with Colorado Dems to stick with Bennet

  August 4, 2010 8:29 AM

  President Barack Obama is pleading with Colorado Democrats to stick with Sen. Michael Bennet in a primary challenge, calling the appointed senator "the person that I want alongside me." Bennet is facing a primary challenge from Andrew Romanoff, a former state lawmaker who has blasted Bennet as too cozy... more »

• Pueblo Senate debate canceled for lack of interest

  August 3, 2010 12:38 PM

  Are voters getting tired of Colorado's Senate primary candidates? The folks in southern Colorado appear to be, with a major debate planned in Pueblo being canceled for lack of interest. Action 22, a civic group that advocates for 22 southern Colorado counties, planned to play host to Democrat Andrew... more »

• Colorado democrats trade barbs over Social Security

  July 29, 2010 8:17 AM

  Two Democrats competing for the Senate nomination are trading jabs over Social Security. Sen. Michael Bennet accused his challenger Wednesday of voting to privatize Social Security in a resolution while Andrew Romanoff was in the state House. Romanoff said that the 2004 resolution favored privatizing Social Security only if... more »

• Gender becoming issue in GOP senate race

  July 22, 2010 8:20 AM

  A Senate candidate's joke about his female opponent was caught on tape and is getting attention online. Republican Ken Buck is running against former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton for the Republican nomination. Asked at a conservative gathering last weekend why Republicans should choose him, Buck made a gender joke.... more »

• Colorado's Senate primary getting feisty

  July 22, 2010 8:09 AM

  With just three weeks left before Colorado's primary elections and mail-in ballots already hitting mailboxes, the sleepy Democratic Senate primary is showing more life. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet aired his first negative ad Tuesday against challenger Andrew Romanoff. The same day, Romanoff launched an attack at the incumbent. Romanoff... more »

• Romanoff reportedly offered job to quit senate race

  June 2, 2010 4:55 PM

  Administration officials dangled the possibility of a job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forego a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. Administration officials on Wednesday declined to specify the job that was floated or the name of the administration official who approached... more »

• Romanoff lags in Senate fundraising

  April 20, 2010 12:42 PM

  Andrew Romanoff remains far behind Sen. Michael Bennet in fundraising for the Senate despite winning the Democratic party caucus straw polls last month. Bennet's primary challenger has reported earning about $385,000 during the first fiscal quarter of the year. Bennet, who was appointed to the seat last year, raised... more »

• Romanoff officially joins crowded Senate race

  September 16, 2009 2:54 PM

  Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff has formally announced he will challenge U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary. Romanoff kicked off his campaign in Pueblo Wednesday. He told a crowd of about 80 that a U.S. senator should be elected, not chosen. It was a dig at Bennet,... more »

• Jane Norton joins GOP Senate race

  September 15, 2009 12:54 PM

  The crowded contest to challenge Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is getting a new player. Former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton will introduce herself to voters in a three-city campaign announcement Tuesday. The Republican joins at least five others from the GOP who will seek to challenge Bennet next year. Norton was... more »