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Will Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo get enough $5, $10 and $50 contributions to even come close to the big contributions that rich Republicans reportedly are and will be giving to Obama Democrat John Hickenlooper? Probably not.

President Obama and Democrats have launced a traditional Social Security and Medicare attack on Republicans. As usual with Obama, he’s lying and using scare tactics to stem the anti-Obama tide that will carry Ken Buck, Cory Gardner, Scott Tipton, Ryan Frazier  and many other Republican candidates for Congress to victory in November. -more-

Ken Buck is going be a big target for the Democrats, especially on social issues. That could scare away the independents’ votes for Buck. In the eyes of independents, moderates and Democrats, Buck is an extremist on social issues. Indeed, that is how I see him, but I’m willing to put that asside for now because I’m more worried about President Barack Obama’s extremism than Buck’s. The Tea Party didn’t made the difference in the GOP primary. The social issues Republicans did. But nobody but the Democrats want to talk about that. And they already are making it an issue by calling Buck an extremist.

Why is Ken Buck leading appointed Obama Democrat Senator Michael Bennet (D-Washington, DC) by 46% to 43% in Rasmussen Reports’ Aug. 11 survey of 750 likely Colorado voters?

Governor-elect Obama Democrat John Hickenlooper leads Republican Dan Maes 43% to 31% while American Constitution Party candidate, Tom Tancredo, comes in third with 18% in the latest Rasmussen poll of 750 likely voters in Colorado.

Former Republican candidate for Treasurer of Colorado, Ali Hasan, and his mother have contributed $10,000 of the $12,000 that proponents for Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101 have raised, Peter Roper reports. Opponents of the tax cutting measures have raised $4 million, he reports. LINK: Hasans top contributors to state’s anti-tax ballot questions. By Peter Roper. Good story.

Freda Poundstone was an early supporter of Dan Maes. And she tells the Denver Post that she gave her financially struggling candidate more than $300 in cash so that he could pay his $3,300 mortgage. But she became unhappy with Maes, voted for Scott McInnis and now supports Tom Tancredo for governor. Maes denies that the money was a gift and says it was a campaign contribution. Poundstone says he’s “a liar.” Now, Maes’ campaign is trying to trace the $300 and figure out why it failed to report it as a campaign contribution.

No Colorado Republican candidate who has read The Blueprint or lived through a recent losing legislative campaign will set themselves up to be smeared by Democrats as “Dan Maes Republicans.”

Colorado gubernatorial candidate, Tom Tancredo, is quoted in the Grand Junction Sentinel as saying (apparently on 850 KHOW) that Republican candidate, Dan Maes, is the third party candidate and should consider quitting. This would let a GOP vacancy committee select another Republican to run against Tancredo and Obama Democrat John Hickenlooper. Or it would let Tancredo and Hickenlooper fight it out in a two-way race. Maes is not expected to quit even though very few Republicans are rallying to support him, according to the Denver Post. In an editorial, the Post reiterated its opinion that Maes is unfit to be governor.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee has launced a new web site: Michael Bennet: Wrong for Colorado. Link is here.

Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund, which helped fund Ken Buck’s primary run, has posted its endorsement of Buck here.

Buck for Colorado is here.

After Cliff Dodge resigned this morning as president of the Arapahoe County Republican Mens club to run Tom Tancredo’s gubernatorial campaign, another former president of the club and a former chairman of the Arapahoe County Republican Party, Nathan Chambers, declared that he thinks the GOP’s candidate, Dan Maes, is in over his head and unqualified to be governor of Colorado. Chambers is a highly regarded GOP activist and observer. Several Colorado editorial pages and conservative bloggers, including me, agree with Chambers.

Coloradans are in for an entertaining and nasty Senate contest between Ken Buck and appointed Obama Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet. This will be as much of a contest between conservative and liberal 527 groups that the candidates can’t legally communicate with or control as between Buck and Bennet. While Buck never raised anywhere close to as much money for the primary as Bennet did, the senator had to pour everything he raised into the primary, including a personal loan of about $300,000. So apparently both campaigns will enter the general election pretty broke and highly dependent on secretive outside groups to fund their campaigns.

Although Buck showed in the primary that he’s pretty well organized around the state, Bennet undoubtedly is better organized and staffed and is better prepared for the general election campaign. Buck will have to hustle to get reorganized and ready to take on Bennet.

Colorado’s Republican voters apparently had a hard time deciding which primary candidate they detested the most, Scott “McPlagiarist” McInnis or “Driving” Dan Maes. At the moment, Maes leads by about a half of a percentage point, or a little over 1,800 votes out of almost 358,000 votes with 78% of the state’s precincts reporting. It’s hard to see how McInnis will catch up, and the final result may not be known until tomorrow, if then. There may be a recount.

Regardless of who wins, it is clear that Republicans had a hard time choosing between Maes and McInnis. The Denver Post and other papers and conservative bloggers say both men are unfit to be governor.

If, as seems likely, Maes becomes the GOP nominee, he is very unlikely to quit and make way for a more electable Republican. This means he will lose big to Governor-elect John Hickenlooper and former Republican and Congressman Tom Tancredo. If Maes gets more than 5% of the votes in the general election, he’ll be doing well.

Public Policy Polling shows Jane Norton leading Ken Buck in the GOP’s U.S. Senate contest 45% to 43% with 12% undecided. That makes that race a toss-up.

Scott McInnis leads Dan Maes in the GOP’s gubernatorial contest 41% to 40% with 19% undecided. It’s a toss-up.

Michael Bennet leads Andrew Romanoff in the Democrats’ U.S. Senate primary 49% to 43% with 9% undecided.

LINK:

Bennet favored, GOP gov. and sen. primaries up in the air. Public Policy Polling.

h/t Coloradopols

Tom Tancredo is running against John Hickenlooper’s sanctuary city. He says that if he has anything to do about it, Hick won’t make Colorado a sanctuary state. LINK: Sanctuary State.

Federalism, states rights and the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution will be a major focus of Tancredo’s campaign. He makes his pitch in this radio ad. LINK: 10th Amendment.

Ads are at

http://tancredoforgovernor2010.org/EmailMessage.mp3 and

http://tancredoforgovernor2010.org/Sanctuary%20City%20Spot%208_5_10_Master_Mix.mp3