From The Denver Post, "[Bob Schaffer] is in the race and is planning a two-step rollout of his campaign, Klein said. This year's announcement is mostly for the political insiders - an effort to raise money and scare off potential rivals for the Republican nomination. Next year's announcement is expected to be a more traditional tour, appealing to voters statewide and laying out a vision. Schaffer has formed a fundraising committee for his Senate campaign and has collected about $683,000. Still, some political watchers interpreted the comment as an opening for Schaffer to back out of the campaign. Bloggers at ColoradoPols.com, a website for discussions of Colorado politics, latched onto Schaffer's words as evidence that Schaffer is waffling. But Bob Loevy, professor of political science at Colorado College, said excessively long campaigns lead to extreme scrutiny of candidates' words. The Senate election is more than a year away. 'My feeling is that he misspoke, the campaign manager corrected it and that's the end of it,' Loevy said."
Category: Denver November 2008 Election
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