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Buck-Bennet Race Still Very Close
cbs4denver.com ^ | 11/3/10

Posted on 11/03/2010 9:47:46 AM PDT by socialism_stinX

DENVER (CBS4) ― Colorado's U.S. Senate race remains a toss up. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet currently leads Republican Ken Buck by about 7,000 votes with 87 percent of precincts reporting.

More than 1.6 million ballots have been counted in the race.

Some projections showed the race could end up within half of 1 percentage point, which would trigger an automatic recount under Colorado law. Both Democrats and Republicans said last week they'd be ready for a possible recount.

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To: taxcontrol

“State has automatic recount laws so a consession does not end it.”

There will probably not be an automatic recount. Buck is losing by 1 percent now. Of course, if the race tightens an automatic recount will occur with legally binding results regardless of concessions. A concession now will avoid a label as a sore loser.


21 posted on 11/03/2010 10:30:44 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: socialism_stinX

“Buck has a good chance to win. It may take another week to count all the votes the first time, and then a recount will probably follow.”

We don’t do so well in recounts - have you noticed? Wonder how many trunkfuls of ballots will be found connected to half way houses, cemetaries, illegals and prisons...

We can still hope and pray and hire our lawyers - but the RATS are experts at corruption and cheating and all the idiot propagandist press winks and nods and looks the other way...

Is the SoS a socialist?


22 posted on 11/03/2010 10:36:31 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (Yesterday we voted-TODAY we fight against vote fraud! Tea Party like it's 1773! Pray 2 Chron. 7:14!)
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To: socialism_stinX

“I think Buck’s problem is the same problem McCain had two years ago: too many democrats have moved into affluent areas of Colorado from the west coast and liberal areas of the midwest. Colorado is now a perpetual battleground state like Wisconsin and Ohio.”

With strong candidates and elimination of minor party candidates, Republicans could have made much larger gains in Colorado. Libertarian candidates may cost Republicans control of the state legislature and the senate seat.


23 posted on 11/03/2010 10:37:04 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: socialism_stinX
Buck has a good chance to win.

I hope you're right, but I'm giving up hope in this state.

24 posted on 11/03/2010 10:41:08 AM PDT by MissTed (Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.)
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To: socialism_stinX

I feel bad about the Governor’s race, the US Senate race and losing some propositions.

On the plus side, we flipped the statehouse and every Dem congresscritter outside Boulder and Denver are gone.

I’ll take it!


25 posted on 11/03/2010 10:49:29 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: MissTed

It was a great night... we flipped the state house and the only Democratic congresscritters here left hail from Boulder and Denver.

Sure, I wanted more but from where I sit this morning, its good news. Our state is almost deep Red, Bennet is shaking in his pajamas and the new Dem Governor Hickenlooper is checkmated.

Can’t have everything!


26 posted on 11/03/2010 10:52:05 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: businessprofessor

Any contempt for the idiots who voted for Stringer, Napolitano, Miller and Moromisato or are you saving it all for Buck?


27 posted on 11/03/2010 11:01:20 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: goldstategop

I agree! It wasn’t a perfect night in the sense that conservatives didn’t win all of the highlighted races, but we flipped two US house seats, the GOP and Dick Wadhams have been exposed and all know how truly weak they are, and the establishment candidates were eliminated before the election.

As I said in pp, conservatives have a lot of work to do in CO, and I have faith that we will learn from both the successes and failures in this election and apply them in future elections and campaigns.

Also, I do believe the SOS post went Republican


28 posted on 11/03/2010 11:02:51 AM PDT by ebersole
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To: businessprofessor
Will absentee ballots [military and other overseas personnel] make a difference? Have they been counted?

Will recount show discreptancies [illegal alien vote?]

29 posted on 11/03/2010 11:11:48 AM PDT by topher (For handmade rosaries -- http://www.louisiana.edu/~cmh5722/rosaries4u)
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To: businessprofessor

Were you a Norton supporter?


30 posted on 11/03/2010 11:31:11 AM PDT by conservativebuckeye
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To: socialism_stinX

I think fraud might be involved here, although not to the degree it is in Nevada. How could these polls be so off?


31 posted on 11/03/2010 11:32:16 AM PDT by conservativebuckeye
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To: topher

Again all you have to do in Colrado is look at jefferson County results and that pretty much mirrors the state the moment I saw Buck lost that county by 48-46 I knew he would lose by about 2 points this race is lost.


32 posted on 11/03/2010 11:32:34 AM PDT by lakewood man
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To: conservativebuckeye

Conservatives underperformed the polls in every race, from PA to IL to WA to CA to NV to CO, to DE, to CT, etc.


33 posted on 11/03/2010 12:03:27 PM PDT by TitansAFC ("Mike Pence's Amnesty plan is the '86 Amnesty with a trip home tacked on." - The Heritage Foundation)
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To: businessprofessor

To concede with more than enough outstanding votes to turn the election would be STUPID......


34 posted on 11/03/2010 12:07:16 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: socialism_stinX

Theft goes to the democrat.


35 posted on 11/03/2010 12:14:14 PM PDT by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: conservativebuckeye

“Were you a Norton supporter?”

I voted for Buck in the primary because I disliked Norton’s attack ads. I would change my primary vote now though.

Ken Buck ran a poor campaign. A good candidate would have clobbered Bennet. Republicans won other state wide raises even against rat incomubents.


36 posted on 11/03/2010 12:22:31 PM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: TitansAFC

They didn’t in Ohio.


37 posted on 11/03/2010 1:16:16 PM PDT by conservativebuckeye
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To: businessprofessor

“Buck should concede. The election is over.”

Al? Al Franken - is that you?


38 posted on 11/03/2010 4:05:45 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: GladesGuru

“Al? Al Franken - is that you?”

Colorado is not Minnesota. The numbers do not lie in this race. Unless the Boulder County made a mistake by taking back 40,000 votes last night, the election is over.


39 posted on 11/03/2010 4:17:01 PM PDT by businessprofessor
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