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A New York Times blogger discovers the news is not good for John McCain in Colorado Springs, where a lifelong Republican on the city council says she is abandoning her party’s nominee to vote for Barack Obama this year. Further endangering McCain’s prospects in Colorado’s largest Republican stronghold, the pastor who replaced former GOP heavyweight Ted Haggard leading one of the city’s largest mega-churches is staying on the sidelines, urging his flock to vote “for any political party.” Seattle-based Timothy Egan visited Colorado Springs, dubbed “the Vatican of evangelical political power,” after the second presidential debate and comes to one...

Barack Obama's Colorado Campaign for Change Hiring NOW (Colorado) Reply to: coloradoCFC@gmail.com [?] Date: 2008-10-04, 8:31PM MDT Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change is Hiring Field staff to work until November 4th. We need motivated, energetic, personable advocates for Barack Obama’s message of change. We are hiring immediately for positions across the state of Colorado. These are paid positions, and candidates must be available to work full-time, seven days a week, until November 4th. Interested individuals should email Amy Steinhoff at ColoradoCFC@gmail.com immediately. WE NEED YOU TO CHANGE THE WORLD * Location: Colorado * Compensation: Email for details * Principals only....

Udall has 7�Point Lead in U.S. Senate Race In the latest Ciruli Associates statewide voter poll, conducted just prior to the September 26 presidential debate, the race in Colorado was deadlocked at 44 percent for Senator Barack Obama and 43 percent for Senator John McCain. Presidential Election Senate Election Mark Udall has a seven-point lead in the U.S. Senate race over Bob Schaffer, 45 percent to 38 percent. Senate Election Ciruli Associates, N501, 2008 Question: Let me ask you about the U.S. Senate race here in Colorado. If you had to vote today for U.S. Senator, would you vote for...

At one point the lions were within about 10 feet of their patio door looking right into their dinning room... “They were meandering around the house, just lollygagging, not in a hurry at all,” Jan explained. “They just kind of hung out in the yard for a while.” In July 2007, a colt was attacked by a mountain lion near Silt but later recovered from its injuries. Several other incidents involving mountain lions have occurred in the area, according to Hampton, but there’s definitely been an increase this year. What frightened Jan about the lions near her home was that...

Two high-profile Colorado Republicans took aim at Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden today, calling the Democrats too liberal for Colorado and a threat to the state's energy needs. Seizing on a recent comment Biden made in Ohio that he and Obama don't support "clean coal" plants in the U.S., former Gov. Bill Owens and Scott McInnis, a former member of Congress, said the Democratic ticket owed an "explanation" to voters about where the state's energy is going to come from. "They are coming to a state where 73 percent of the energy needs are met by coal,"...

There has been a pretty vicious fight in Colorado over several Amendments that will appear on the ballots aimed at putting a collar on rampant union violations of worker's rights this year. The unions have imported all sorts of outside groups and money to defeat these worker freedom Amendments. Here is a page from the latest anti-worker rights the unions have sent out. As AnCap of the People's Press colorfully says of these claims... Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

<p>FOUNTAIN, Colo. — A Colorado teenager hired men to kill his mother so he could use her money to get breast implants for his girlfriend, police said.</p> <p>Nikita Lee Weis, 18, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, said Fountain Deputy Police Chief Mike Barnett.</p>

<p>AURORA (MyFOXColorado.com) - An 11-year-old in Aurora says his first amendment rights are being trampled after he was suspended for wearing a homemade shirt that reads "Obama is a terrorist's best friend."</p> <p>The fifth grader at Aurora Frontier K-8 School wore it on a day when students were asked to wear red, white and blue to show their patriotism.</p>

DENVER This year's Colorado ballot is loaded with high-profile initiatives on hot-button issues, the kind that tend to stir passions, mobilize voters and swing elections. It's even possible that the ballot - which includes measures on abortion, labor unions, education and affirmative action - could determine the outcome of the presidential contest in Colorado. But not probable, say political analysts.

According to the latest polls, McCain leads Obama by 2% in the Centennial State. That’s not extremely significant, until you look at who grabs 3% of the vote. Yeah, that’s right. Ralph Nader.

Here is complete video of Gov. Sarah Palin speaking today at a rally in Golden, Colorado. More than 5,000 people attended the rally. (The video is in two parts. Both parts will begin playing automatically - just pause one of them) . . . see videos at link

Well...I played hookie this morning and went to the Sarah Palin Rally this morning at the Westernaires Arena in Golden, Colorado. It was originally to be a pancake breakfast meeting, but due to the overwhelming demand the campaign ran out of tickets in the span of eight hours so the pancakes were tossed out. I had called ahead and I had tickets available at the "will call" booth at the arena. I left the house in Thornton at 5 AM and parked at the Colorado Mills Mall parking lot at 5:30. I then walked about a mile to the Arena....

Palin's crowds today in Colorado (more than Obama's)

Palin Outlines Four-Point Focus In McCain Administration (GOLDEN, COLO.) - For the first time since joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin outlined the issues she would focus on in a John McCain administration. “John and I have worked out a plan—what I want to concentrate on and what he would like to kind of tap into me to help with, Palin said at a rally in front of a few thousand people here. “My mission is going to energy security and government reform. And another thing near and dear to my heart, it’s going to be helping families who have...

GOLDEN - Tickets have run out for Governor Sarah Palin's visit just eight hours Friday. Now Palin's campaign is changing the venue to fit everyone. The event will now be moved to the Westernaires Arena at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. This arena change will take place of the planned pancake breakfast in order to accommodate the demand. NEWSCHANNEL 13 will be covering the event live on krdo.com with coverage begining at 9:00 a.m. Monday. The event is still free to the public and doors will open around 7 a.m. Monday September 15th. Jefferson County Fairgrounds 15200 West 6th Avenue Golden,...

Join Colorado Women Against Palin for a Rally in Golden A Colorado WAP member, Michelle, is organizing a peaceful rally during Sarah Palin’s visit to Golden, Colorado on Monday. When: Meet 7 a.m. on Monday, Sept 15th Where: Meet at Starbucks Highway 93 & Washington in Golden. We’ll all carpool from there to Jefferson County Fairgrounds What: Peaceful rally against Palin at Palin’s speech at Jefferson County Fairgrounds Who: Women & Men Please everyone do your part to spread the word about this event. It will be great to show our opposition at an event at which Palin is present.

Coloradans will face a jam-packed ballot this fall, but even the seemingly simple choice of a presidential candidates will include 14 third-party options, according to The Denver Post. Because it is relatively easy to get on Colorado’s ballot, Objectivist and Boston Tea Party candidates will join Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, as well as perennial third-party candidate Ralph Nader, in the mix of choices for the next leader of the free world. As the Post reports: For a $500 filing fee and a valid list of nine electors, candidates in Colorado can apply to be on the presidential ballot...

Great story on women taking up firearms after Palin entered race. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoIdhCL928I

Barack Obama is holding onto a one point lead in Colorado, down from four in PPP's previous two polls of the state. Colorado continues a trend PPP has found in several battleground states this week of John McCain gaining support from white voters since the two party conventions. Where he led by just two points with that demographic in August, it is now six. Obama is winning overall in the state because of his overwhelming support from the state's growing Hispanic electorate, with which he has a 58-34 advantage. The traditionally red states of Virginia and Colorado are toss ups...

Palin expected in Colorado MondayUpdated: Sep 10, 2008 09:59 PM EDT According to the Colorado GOP Office, Governor Palin is expected to be in Jefferson County Monday. Details of the visit are not known, but she is expected to be traveling on her own. This would be her second visit to the state since accepting the Republican nomination for Vice President. McCain along with Palin, spoke at a rally Saturday in Colorado Springs that drew a huge crowd. Colorado will be a key battle ground state this election, garnering much attention from both political campaigns.

A Fruitvale man whose guns were returned to him Tuesday wants a court to invalidate the search warrant under which they were taken 10 months ago. Bill Martin, owner of A-1 Repossessions, also wants about $50,000 of his legal bills paid. Martin watched from above, about 75 yards away, on the Riverside Parkway walkway Tuesday morning as Mesa County Sheriff’s Department officials transferred the weapons from one truck to another truck that he hired to transport the weapons. Martin’s wife, Shelley, and a gunsmith who is familiar with the weapons oversaw the transfer, which took place inside the gated employee...

ICE, Aurora Police Shift Blame Over Hernandez Kim Ngan Nguyen, Staff Writer POSTED: 5:33 pm MDT September 8, 2008 UPDATED: 6:23 pm MDT September 8, 2008 DENVER -- Victims' family members, police officers and several Republican lawmakers are wondering why an illegal immigrant who has had at least 16 arrests in the past five years was never deported, and ultimately allowed to be behind the wheel of a vehicle involved in a recent deadly hit-and-run. Police said Francis Hernandez, 23, was driving without a license when he ran a red light last Thursday and triggered a chain reaction crash that...

September 06, 2008 Categories: McCain Rocky Mountain high for McCain-Palin The GOP ticket, making its debut in the West, draws a monster crowd into a Colorado Springs airport hangar. The campaign had 15,000 RSVPs, and 10,000 have already gone through Secret Service as the rally gets underway on a gorgeous Rocky Mountain day. As with yesterday in Wisconsin and Michigan, there are not just more people but significantly more excitement and anticipation than at past McCain rallies. By Jonathan Martin 02:29 PM

The New York Times finally recognizes that Palinmania is the real thing. Gov. Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain’s new running mate, has been rocking Republican crowds with her mocking digs at Senator Barack Obama and his campaign’s central theme of “change.’’ [snip] Ms. Palin was speaking at an airport rally that drew thousands of wildly enthusiastic people in Colorado Springs, rock solid Republican territory, where the crowd waved a sea of American flags and chanted “Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin.’’ Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin appeared to the booming sound of Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation,’’ an anthem of the...

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A year ago, Coors Brewing - before its new joint venture with Miller Brewing - unveiled the creation of tiny AC Golden Brewing Co. The upstart brewery would operate as a stand- alone brewer, with its own budget. The aim: Brew small-batch, handcrafted beers that would mimic the success of the parent company's popular Blue Moon Belgian White, a craft-style wheat ale. Fast-forward one year. The clock was nearing 7 on a recent Wednesday morning at the MillerCoors brewery here. Two brewers were preparing to make the fourth batch - roughly 30 barrels - of AC Golden's debut brew: Herman...

Families United had a Patriotic display at the Triangle park today in St. Paul MN. The great thing was having Jon Voight come down and talk to the Gold Star Families and the Blue Star Families and thank them for being so strong on supporting the Troops and Their Mission. Mr. Voight was very strong in his works of thanks and his talking of how he was thankful of learning as he got older how his veiws have changed for the better.

Al Jazeera English broadcast today from the Buffalo Rose, an Old West biker bar in downtown Golden, a small city near Denver. Golden is a charming place. Clear Creek runs through it, and supplies the gigantic Coors Brewery with the water it turns into Colorado’s most famous beer. Golden is also known as the home of the Colorado School of Mines. Their athletic teams’ symbol is a miner’s donkey. [ Great photos at link ]

Colorado: McCain 47 - 46Nevada: Obama 49 - 44New Mexico: Obama 53-40Pennsylvania: Obama 48-43

RECREATE '68! DAYS OF RAGE! DAYS OF RESISTANCE! Yes, the moonbats are revolting! The feces has hit the fan in Denver, as the mile-high marchers have begun to RIOT4PEACE! But let's first get in the spirit of things with this ode to the anarchists. Click the music link and sing along! COLORADO (Be Sure to Wear a Gas Mask on Your Face)Tune: "San Francisco" (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" Original If you're goin' to Colorado Be sure to wear a gas mask on your face If you're goin' to Colorado You're gonna breathe some pepper...

So now we know the Democratic ticket: Obama-Biden. We have been promised John McCain's running mate on Friday the 29th. With Joe Biden as the matchup, who among the plausible candidates should McCain take? And who is helped/hurt by the Biden pick? Personally, I think I would disregard at least some of my own prior checklist and take Eric Cantor. Cantor's young (but not too young), smart, conservative, telegenic, and from an important state that is a must-win for McCain (although Virginia seems less important with the news that Obama has suspended his TV ad campaign there, and there's less...

Excerpt - A day of relative quiet that had observers wondering what happened to the large demonstrations expected in Denver this week turned violent Monday night as police fired pepper balls and pepper spray at protesters. Police dressed in riot gear and wearing gas masks clashed with scores of people who refused to leave a one-block stretch of 15th Street near Civic Center Park. Police made 91 arrests. No serious injuries were reported. ~ snip ~

GOLDEN, Colo. - The city manager of Golden, Colo., has decided to withdraw his invitation to let the Al-Jazeera news network broadcast from a barbecue in his backyard on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

The mother of two children who were found dead inside her car Wednesday was excited about starting a new life after a recent divorce. Stacey Mendieta, 28, had planned to move with her children to Kuwait to marry her fiancee, whom she met online, said Denver attorney Eric Ruderman, who represented Mendieta in her divorce ------------------------------------------------ Her estranged husband could not be found and was served by publication shortly after Mendieta filed for divorce in March. Court records state that Hugo Mendieta is an "illegal alien who is most likely in Honduras or elsewhere in South America."

Currently, America’s 10 largest unions used an average of only 30 percent of their dues to represent their members and negotiate with employers. They spent the other 70 percent on activities like lobbying, political activities, gifts, grants, overhead, and compensation for their staff according to James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation.

Water experts of all stripes were left questioning the prudence of Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Sen. John McCain after he told a newspaper the critical 1922 water compact between seven Western states should be revisited. “I don’t think there’s any doubt the major, major issue is water and can be as important as oil. So the compact that is in effect, obviously, needs to be renegotiated over time amongst the interested parties,” McCain told The Pueblo Chieftain. “I think that there’s a movement amongst the governors to try, if not, quote, renegotiate, certainly adjust to the new realities of...

A political battle for the ages may become a battle of the ages. Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are neck-and-neck in Colorado, solidifying the state as a key, swing area that will be pivotal in deciding who becomes the next president of the U.S., according to a Rocky Mountain News/CBS4 News poll released Friday. "It's a heck of a horse race in Colorado," said pollster Lori Weigel. "We're officially a purple state now." The poll revealed sharp divisions among voters by age and geography, with the candidates' approaches to economic issues a key to winning the state. "There...

I will be attending this rally on Aug. 24th! Come join in the fun! Rally for Victory Over IslamonazisAmerican Victory Coalition has a permit for a rally at Pioneer Monument Park in Denver on Sunday, Aug. 24th. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

American Victory Coalition has a permit for a rally at Pioneer Monument Park in Denver on Sunday, Aug. 24th. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission, will be there, as will Vets for Freedom.

The race for Colorado’s Electoral College votes is about as close as it can be on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Colorado voters shows John McCain attracting 47% of the vote while Barack Obama earns 45%. When “leaners” are included, it’s McCain by a single percentage point, 49% to 48%. While McCain’s advantage is statistically insignificant, it is the first time he has been ahead in Colorado in seven monthly polls conducted by Rasmussen Reports this year. It’s also the first time that McCain has reached the 47% level...

Authorities are testing a pound of a granular substance found inside an upscale Denver hotel room to determine if it is cyanide. A Canadian national was found dead on Monday inside room 408 of the Burnsley Hotel. The Denver Coroner's Office has not completed the autopsy of 29-year-old Saleman Abdirahman Dirie. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is assisting Denver police with the investigation. "You have a suspicious substance that was found in a hotel room in conjunction with person being a foreign national and we have a lot of questions and that is why we are assisting," said Denver...

DENVER (AP) ― Denver voters passed a ballot measure that would give police the authority to seize cars driven by illegal immigrants. Initiative 100 requires police to impound vehicles of unlicensed drivers, an authority they already have. It also adds language to the city code that targets illegal immigrants.The measure says that when a driver is an illegal alien or "may be reasonably suspected of being an illegal alien" police can impound the car.

It has the makings of international intrigue. Less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention a man has been found dead in a Denver hotel room with a container of what authorities initially suspect to be the deadly poison cyanide. Adding to the intrigue is that the dead man, Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, 29, appears to be from outside the U.S. No passport was found on Dirie, who is believed to have entered the country from Canada. A large container of a white powdery substance was found in the man's room on the fourth floor of the Burnsley Hotel at...

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_Colorado_811.pdf My analysis says otherwise. Notes: ---Poll shows only 77% White vote, when White vote in last CO Election was 86 percent! http://www.exitpollz.org/exitpolls/Colo1224CNNScreen0006.pdf ---15-Point Obama lead among Independents in hooey. Anyone who knows anything about this election knows Obama is lucky to get a statistical tie among Independents. ---37%-30% Statistical GOP identification lead in CO (last election) is now 38%-37%???? Slant a little, do we? ---Ken Salazar owns a 39% approval rating, but beats all potential opponents in a landslide (won by 4% last time)? ---Men tied between Obama and McCain (Whites, too) - the only place in the country?...

Democrats are pretty eager to repeal (some) of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. But what about the 2008 tax cut? By that, I mean the big drop in oil prices we are seeing right now. I think the president's lifting of the executive order banning offshore drilling was a key moment in reversing oil-market psychology. Since then, we've had McCain push the drilling issue hard, and even Obama has softened his anti-drill stance. For now, the political momentum is behind cheaper energy.

EL PASO COUNTY - Information teaching illegal aliens how to skirt the law is drawing fire from State Representative Douglas Bruce. Bruce claims victim's advocates at the El Paso County Sheriff's Office handed out the information. "This is a brochures that is trying to turn illegal aliens into victims and this program sponsored by the sheriff's office is telling people how to undercut federal law enforcement," says Bruce. He provided NEWSCHANNEL 13 with the entire packet, which includes cartoon drawings, with one man holding a card saying: "I want to speak to my lawyer." The six-page brochure teaches undocumented workers...

AUGUST 4--An Osama bin Laden disciple serving life in the United States's only "supermax" federal prison believes that jailers are putting his health in jeopardy by X-raying all his food trays and commissary items in search of contraband items. Convicted terrorist Mohamed Al-Owhali alleges that the Bureau of Prisons security measure unreasonably increases his "daily exposure to potentially carcinogenic radiation," which the al-Qaeda operative claims violates Eighth Amendment prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. The 31-year-old Al-Owhali, who is being held at the "supermax" lockup in Florence, Colorado, was convicted of conspiring to bomb a U.S. embassy in Africa, an...

Soaring gas prices appear to be influencing Colorado's U.S. Senate race, analysts say, citing a poll released Thursday showing the race between Democrat Mark Udall and Republican Bob Schaffer in a dead heat. The poll - one of three this week - shows Udall and Schaffer tied 44-44 percent, compared to a 48-38 percent lead for Udall in June. The poll is jointly run by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, The Wall Street Journal and washingtonpost.com. "By a 50-39 percent margin, Colorado voters say a candidate's position on energy policy is more important than their position on the war in Iraq,"...

With just one month to go until the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the city and the Secret Service are preparing for activist crowds estimated to be between 20,000 and 50,000. Authorities are taking every precaution to make sure those looking to disrupt what the Democratic Party expects to be a historic moment don’t go too far. “I think we have to give the police the ability to act in certain circumstances where the intent … is clear. That is to act before something actually happens,” said Al Lacabe, safety manager in Denver. Police will not comment on whether they...