August 29, 2009 06:07 AM UTC

Buck Out?

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• by: ohwilleke

The Denver Post is pushing the rumor that Ken Buck is getting out of the U.S. Senate race on Monday.  He follows Bob Beauprez in a race for the exits.  

Are Ryan Frazier and Clevel Tidwell just too imposing to consider facing off against?  Is Bennet, arguably the most vunerable incumbent in Colorado in decades, an insurmountable challenge?  I don’t think so.  The clearing field seems to make a Norton run a foregone conclusion.  The two GOP laggards in getting out just aren’t in the loop enough to notice, or are too narcissistic to care.

It’s time to start running the Bennet v. Romanoff primary race, and Bennet v. Norton and Romanoff v. Norton general election polls.  Nobody else matters in Colorado’s rapidly remodeling U.S. Senate race.  

Then again, maybe the Romanoff and Buck rumors are utter tripe.  It wouldn’t be the first time that the Denver Post was wrong and the blogs (as well as a lack of competition to punish it if its reputation is sullied by a misstep) have put pressure on it to put rumors on the wires quickly.  

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