car -- colorado is laughter almost lost in its support for colleges and universities -- colorado is last or almost lost in its support for college and universities. high school graduation rates are tumbling. you read little money compared to other states to offer me -- you have little money compared to other states to offer me in the way of incentives. i do not care about skiing or 300 days of sunshine to convince me to move to your state. [laughter] >> by almost every major, we're one of the top states in the country in terms of overall business environment. forms magazine, which is not a liberal magazine -- forbes magazine, which is not a liberal magazine, laid out colorado as fourth in the country. near the center of the country. if you have a national sales force or marketing force, that helps. we are geographically located so that you can connect to the rest of the country rapidly. we have investment in quality of life, beyond the climate for the 300 days of sunshine or the rocky mountains. it is a place where people want to live, especially young, talented people. we had a study a

these are colorado ideas. they are now in the health-care bill that ken buck has demonized and said we should repeal. what we had before and what we continue to have endless ander unsustainable path. i have always maintained from the very beginning of the debate that we ought to be focused on costs. whether people are covered are not covered, cost is destroying -- whether people are covered or not covered, cost is destroying us. that is an incredibly expensive way to deal with this. it is a tax we are all paying. that is an unfunded mandate. we can do better than that as a country if we set partisan politics aside and work together in a business-type action. >> the reality is the costs are going to rise at a faster rate. i read recently that at the government did nothing, cost would go up last that they are going up under this health care bill. that is a disgrace. again, it is a top-down model. senator bennett was the deciding vote on it. it is not the kind of health care we need in this country. >> if i do no

this one shares the continental divide with can colorado river. so this is indicative of what happens in spring of 06. the dark bars are what it was on april 01 and this is may one a month later. most of these lost 50 percent of their snow on one month period. many my favorite is went from 176 to normal and 0 percent in one month. this is a spring time warming trend that's quite son certain. this is provided by the national resource office in new port land. the trees are containing the manager's and it's been my pleasure to work with connie and she a long with dave and a few others reconstructed this going back five years and we're looking at a 20 year average dating to about 1500. what's interesting is the tree ring is 13 point 5 acre point feet and historical is 18 point 1. with this no one cares about individual years and what's more important is the run, the sequences of drought and this is where the trees na >> some of them use temperatures and some use global climate models and some both. there are lots of future greenhouse gas predictions.

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>> we can't really leave colorado without talking about the ad war, because colorado is ground zero.'ve been going through and looking at where these outside groups with millions of dollars are playing, and if you go across the country, they sort of team up here and team up here and team up there. in colorado, they're all in. and there's at one point -- and this was early on. so my number is going to be way off, because they spent a lot more. and this was only maybe a week ago. i looked at it, and they had spent $27 million, almost all of it, directed at senator bennett, attacking him. and there are 2.4 million active voters in colorado. and the outside groups alone had spent $27 million there. and that's the low number. it went up. and these ads, you see them. they're hard, they're mean, and they're not just meant to undermine the candidate. these are intended, in the words of an american cross roads spokesman, to throw gasoline on the fire. they are meant to make people mad. gwen: but when you add all the money together, not just the independent expenditures, aren't democrats outsp

ohio secretary of state, and colorado secretary of state. thanks to both of you for being on c-span's "newsmakers" today. >> thank you. >> we appreciate it. >> let me turn to our two guests in studio in washington. jessica of politico. reed of hot line, also knee deep with all your staff in this year's election. we heard two confident secretaries of state, but what they also seem to be pretty confident of is that there are going to be court challenges going forward? is this the way of the world for elections in the united states from where our society is is? >> i think minnesota gave us a new standard, and both parties have been preparing definitely for this. we've seen fund raising appeals come out from both sides saying we have to be ready to go on november 3rd. and it's almost inevitably going to be either the house race, several senate races so dedloked in the polls. so it's not going to surprise journalists. but i think what you did see from both of them is that people want to minimize the time and the length. they don't want the electi

in that colorado race, there was a poll.findings of this poll is that bennett is ahead in nearly two-one in denver but trails in the rest of bennette region not -- is ahead in denver. the republican candidate is way back at 7%. you may know that the tea party is split in that colorado governor's race, some backing tom tancredo and some another in that race. first telephone call here, chris, in mississippi, have you decided how you are going to vote? who are you going to be voting for? >> the tea party is something to get president obama, but we will lose the house. >> all right, we will go to ohio. alexandria, on the republican line, have you decided how you are going to vote? >> well, i was thinking hard about this, but i would like to say that listening to john kasich, talking about david from the bible, note he gave these examples that david was ready, but john kasich probably does not know the bible, because if he would read the kings and samuel, he would find out that they were cruel and merciless murderers of all of th

it involves colorado and have been colorado's lead the way. >> thank you.our next question is from dan griffen with the answer from cory gardner. >> thank you for being here. this is my first time doing this. i was very impressed recently on a mailing service, the post office said for the fourth year in a row we want more money. more increases from out of the pockets of hard-working americans. the postal commissioners recognize adding this tax to the customer is in the american citizens would not fix the financial troubles they have gotten into. by continuing to disembark on their products -- it was actual structural issues they needed to fix. they needed to become more competitive and do their jobs as a business. i am wondering if any of you know why this approach was not taken instead of the bailout for the insurance industry's, the banks, and tell them to restructure to make your business work? >> it is a great question. i opposed the bailouts. i also mean i opposed things like cash for clunkers. the bailouts of the labor organizations. the bailouts that

color what is a big state. -- colorado's is a big state. -- call one o c -- colorado is a big state. and wet my uncle's farm had 100 bottles and cans on a split rail fence. we have all been trained in gun safety and we know what to do. if i was standing there, i would have a 22 target pistol and there were probably 12 of los. i accidently shot a bullet that missed my little toe and my second vote by about a 60th of an inch and put a little hole in the end of my sister and i looked around to see if any of my own polls have seen. they had not, so the data so i just kept shooting. -- so i just kept shooting. i am in favor of the second amendment. what we are trying to look at is how to keep handguns out of the hands of criminals. i think that there has got to be -- we have to make sure that we keep the handguns out of the hands of people with mental problems and criminals. [applause] i do not know anybody who is trying to give hand guns to criminals or the mentally ill. that is not the issue. the reality is that nobody wants people in canyon city spending for guns in the mail. -- sendin

two of the fiercest senate battles this year are being waged in colorado and illinois. because both seats are now held by democrats-- and the illinois seat was once held by president obama-- both parties have poured resources into the races. the president and first lady have each traveled to chicago to campaign for democratic nominee alexi giannoulias. and mr. obama will return this weekend. the latest "chicago tribune" poll shows giannoulias narrowly trailing veteran republican congressman mark kirk. as each candidate struggles for the upper hand, their debates have focused on hot button issues like taxes and spending. >> if you're happy with the direction of the government right now of trillions in debt of increasingly accelerating the spending of the congress and the growing of the government into our national life then my opponent is your candidate but there is a growing voice in illinois that wants a check and balance, that does not think we should raise taxes in springfield like my opponent would like or in washington d.c. >> to hear congressman kirk say that he t

these are colorado ideas. they are now in the health-care bill that ken buck has demonized and said we should repeal. what we had before and what we continue to have endless ander unsustainable path. i have always maintained from the very beginning of the debate that we ought to be focused on costs. whether people are covered are not covered, cost is destroying -- whether people are covered or not covered, cost is destroying us. that is an incredibly expensive way to deal with this. it is a tax we are all paying. that is an unfunded mandate. we can do better than that as a countrif we set partisan politics aside and work together in a business-type action. >> the reality is the costs are going to rise at a faster rate. i read recently that at the government did nothing, cost would go up last that they are going up under this health care bill. that is a disgrace. again, it is a top-down model. senator bennett was the deciding vote on it. it is not the kind of health care we need in this country. >> if i do not

two of the fiercest senate battles this year are being waged in colorado and illinois. because both seats are now held by democrats-- and the illinois seat was once held by president obama-- both parties have poured resources into the races. the president and first lady have each traveled to chicago to campaign for democratic nominee alexi giannoulias. and mr. obama will return this weekend. the late "chicago tribune" poll shows giannoulias narrowly trailing veteran republican congressman mark kirk. as each candidate struggles for the upper hand, their debates have focused on hot button issues like taxes and spending. >> if you're happy with the direction of the government right now of trillions in debt of increasingly accelerating the spending of the congress and the growing of the government into our national life then my opponent is your candidate but there is a growing voice in illinois that wants a check and balance, that does not think we should raise taxes in springfield like my opponent would like or in washington d.c. >> to hear congressman kirk say that he tax

short, and the colorado health institute projected by 2025 colorado will need an additional 2,200 primary care providers beyond the anticipated supply, and that would jeopardize access for thousands of coloradans, particularly in rural areas or underserved communities. how would you tackle this problem? again, we'll start with the mayor. >> all of these conditions require us to look for new, innovative solutions. and certainly in rural areas, we tacked for a while of grand junction having 10 or 12 medical students from c.s.u., c.u. medical school, sorry, spending their last two years out in grand junction on the condition that then they would practice in rural areas. how do we use technology to make sure those areas are able to get out of medicine? part is finding other incentives. but how do we get health clinics? underserved communities so we can do more preventive medicine so we don't end up in the emergency rooms with these incredibly high costs? >> dan maes? >> i ran into a unique program called clinic net. and what i love about this program is, it's not government-sponsored, there's

that might work for denver, but it does not work for the rest of colorado, and colorado is a big staken around guns my entire life. when i was a kid, 10 years old, i would go to my aunt and uncle's farm. there were hundreds of bottles and cans, and we had all been trained in gun safety. we knew we were supposed to do. we were shooting the guns and bottles. there were probably 12 of us on the porch. i accidentally shot a bullet that missed my little toe by about 1/16 of an inch. it put a hole in my speaker. i looked around to see if -- it put a hole in my sneaker. i looked around to see if anybody had seen it. they had not, so i kept shooting. what we're trying to look at is how we keep handguns out of the hands of criminals. i think the colorado compromise of closing the gun show loophole is a good one. i think there has to be a way to make sure the we keep handguns out the hands of people that have mental problems and are criminals. >> i do not know anybody who is trying to get handguns for the criminals and mentally ill. that is not the issue. the reality is, nobody wants to have peo

those are plausible in colorado. the,y axis is number of years in which we get plugs out of records. 78 years. there are two things to catch from this. one, is first of all, the vulnerability of the relative moderate increase of flow in the colorado. a ten percent increase in flow. changes the number of years with uncontrolled spills, floods, from six out of 78 in the data case to 16 out of 78 years some more than doubles the ten percent increase, more than doubles the years you have uncontrolled spills and different colors, blue is little spills and most are red the big ones. sorry the smaller one. you don't get really big spills undercurrent conditions. but when a 20 percent increase in flow your getting more inflows. the system is sincetive to climate. the second important point here is, this whole project. assessing the risk, assuming we operate the system the same way thomas we operating today, we were told when we proposed the project we could not change the operating rules that reservoirs and could not change

jeff greenfield reports colorado this year reflects the mood of the nation. >> reporter: colorado was born in the search for gold and silver, but in recent years, democrats have hit pay dirt prospecting for votes. obama won here handily just two years ago. >> are you prepared to vote for the republican team? >> reporter: but this year the democrats hold on a u.s. senate seat is in real jeopardy. why? because it turns out all politics is not local. >> the dislike of congress, the unhappiness with a lot of legislation, being disappointed about this economy, absolutely. that's what's framing this election. >> reporter: colorado is part of a broad national pattern, an insurgent republican seeking to tie his opponent to washington. a democrat seeking independent votes by arguing his opponent is too far out of the mainstream. >> i certainly fit the mold of a different kind of candidate for the u.s. senate. >> reporter: 51-year-old ken buck is a career prosecutor whose tea party campaign defeated a far better-known republican. he is staunchly conservative on economic and social issues and te

take that from rural colorado. it says no matter where you stand on climate legislation, this bill as now drafted will chcause major economic harm. if you irrigate your farm land, you will pay $1,700 more per liter. this will drive up the cost of fertilizer and farm equipment. we can do better, but we knew do not need to do with the greatest tax increase in the history. >> you did submit a bill in the legislature that would tax the wind cut close along people's property. as a matter of fact, i have here, a fiscal note from a legislative council and it says here about your bill, that county assessors would need to have created a separate wind it writes tax schedules and to value that for tax purposes. it would have created a new tax on the wind that blows across europeyour property. >> the bill does not talk anything about taxes. the constitution says if you're going to increase taxes, it is a vote of the people. once again, read the bill. [applause] >> we are pushing the clock now. your shortest possible statements

want to see what that looked like last night in colorado?and a senior came up to me and said, ken, i'm voting for you, but please don't take my social security away. i need it to live. that cuts you to the quick. it's an absolute lie you put on the commercials and you have frightened so many seniors. >> you're right, seniors are scared. it's not because of what i'm saying about what you said. it's because of what you said. you may have changed your mind which is okay, but i'm reading, you know, president bush has tried to some call eed personalization of social security. how did you feel about that plan? is that something you'd be willing to entertain? but i'd be willing to entertain, but we're going to have to reshape the entitlement programs and privatize to be able to cut down on a large part of the budget deficit. look, look, people know what you're saying when you say this. it's important that we say the same things in red parts of state and blue parts of state, in primaries and general elections. at the beginning of the campaign and th

now, part of it is colorado is a fairly inexpensive state.u only have to buy one media market to get 80% of the state but it is a stunning figure. $10 million in republican outside groups. $6.7 most from the dncc. look how it's overpowering the actual candidates themselves. this is a case where outside groups have taken over messaging from the two candidates. it's a trend thanks to these new campaign finance laws you're going to see over and over again. show you an example of outside group advertising in this colorado senate race. >> he gambled with our teachers' retirements facing a $400 million shortfall. denver school superintendent michael bennet pushed the school board into a risky deal with wall street bankers. he should work for us, not wall street. american crossroads is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> investigated for ethics violations. reprimanded for reckless disregard of duty. ken buck's misconduct led an illegal gun dealer facing 37 charges off the hook. >> so there you go, savannah. as i was saying all of the

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in colorado and across the country. we need to break the reliance on foreign oil, stop sending billions of dollars a week to the persian gulf to regimes that turnaround and send money to arm and equip terrorists overseas and use those funds instead to invest in energy in the united states. colorado has seen 20% growth in clean energy jobs and natural gas jobs as well. that is what we need to fight for. >> 94% of business in colorado are small businesses. if we're going to get out of the economic slump in colorado, we need to encourage small businesses to expand. they will not right now because they do not have the certainty to risk capital in the marketplace. they don't know what their health care is going to be in three years, with their tax bill is going to be, what their energy bill is going to be, they don't know how hard regulators are going to come down on them. we had a dramatic lurch to the left in government and it has caused uncertainty in the marketplace and we need to make sure those folks have certainty by

the colorado river is in it's 7th year of drought and record low levels on the reservoirs. the other ss get water from california. which wildly fluctuates. so i think i don't gamble i just work in california water. you get the same sensation of putting it on the line all the time. we have a large capitol improvement program and it's part of the analysis and it mately the response we have done to some of these challenges. let me show you where our transmission line is. we go from the northern border to the mexican border. three thousand miles of pipe. it's now about 13 feet in diameter and we serve 3 point 2 million people a year and serve an economy of billions. there is my life. you are here. there i am. i'm that corner at the bottom of the pipes in a really bright orange yellow area. we get an average of 8 inches of rain per year. so we - there is very little we can do related to rain fall and local run off. our strategies have to be radically different than strategies that edward and chuck have sitting in portland and seattle and i think if there's anything you take away

two critical and very close races, colorado and west virginia. preeti arla with the latest. >> reporter: it's coming down to the wire in these races and both parties are sinking time and money into them, hoping to sway the outcome. republican john raese is trying to become west virginia's first republican senator since 1958. >> you have to wonder, wonder about obama and manchin which direction they're going because there are choices in this election. >> reporter: hoping to capitalize on voter frustration, he spent much of last night's debate painting joe manchin as an ally of president obama. >> i'm not a rubber stamp for anybody. >> reporter: manchin has an approval rating near 07%. most polls show him running neck in neck with rease for the late robert byrd seat. west virginia is one seat they have to win to take control of congress. another battleground state, colorado, where democrats are try to fend off a tea party favorite. >> this tea party business has brightened my life. they've now had everybody from witchcraft to -- >> reporter: last n

. >> jeanne cummings, colorado, a purple state that colorado car -- that obama carried. that is a battleground. his home senate seat, alexi giannoulis against mark kirk, the republican, that is in the balance, too. >> illinois is what strikes many people who have watched that race very carefully -- kirk should be running away with that race, and is not. that is an oddity when we look at it. one of the reasons a lot of these races have tightened up is that democrats were laid to engage. the wait until after labor day to start going on television. in pennsylvania, for instance, the democrats' pac has very hard-hitting ads against the republican toomey, who in august had the race to himself. that is when the race open a really quiet on the republican side, and it has -- tightened up a has and opened up release wjla.com -- wide on the republican side and now it has tightened a bit. bad news for the democrats is that there seems to be a surge by republicans that democrats hope would not happen. that is tied to the braces that democrats -- that has tightened up raises the demo

senate candidate in colorado. he told fox news that mail-in balloting says he has to peak with the voters and stay peaked all the way until election day. there is a direct impact between the campaign cash and the mai mail-in balloting. they told us it makes the home stretch longer and tougher for candidates to pin down theee electric right. in colorado 60% of registered voters will cast their ballot by mail and when doing it this way they can vote right away and send it in or they can wait all the way up until election day november 2nd and tkrof it off. colorado's secretary of state tells us that this can lessen the blow of bad news hitting a campaign in the last new days of the election. if it's your opponent getting the bad news that's bad for you, if it's are if it's your camp people have already voted and it's not so bad. jon: 60%, more than half of the voters in colorado voted this way, early voting? >> reporter: yes, 60% of the voters in colorado have requested mail-in ballots, and it's looking like it's goi

the president's popularity in colorado is below the national average.e obama tries to help michael bennett within an election a second time. >> i know this. wyes, we can. yes, we must. yes, we will. let's get it done. >> echos of 2008 when barack obama won colorado by nine points with that slogan. >> bret: coming up, the senate race in nevada has become a real slugfest. senate majority leader harry reid is on the ropes and carl cameron is there. ♪ [ male announcer ] ever have morning pain slow you down? introducing bayer am, an extra strength pain reliever with alertness aid to fight fatigue. so get up and get goin'! with new bayer am. the morning pain reliever. >> bret: if you had to take one contest as a case study of campaign 2010, it would be the senate race in nevada. the incumbent democrat harry reid. no lawmaker is more responsible than the senate majority leader for pushing president obama's agenda through congress. the challenger, republican sharron angle. no candidate better represents the tea party's resolve to reverse democratic change and s

chris, first to you what are you looking at in colorado with ken buck, michael bennet?ker the primary turned out a tea party guy in ken buck, though he is, i think, a little less of the tea party than a sharon angle or rand paul or christine o'donnell, still the backing of the conservative right in the primary. polling shows this race extremely, extremely, extremely close. michael bennet has struggled because he is both not all that well known bus he was not in politics before he was appoint to this office last year but he does have seine, senator before his name, not a good thing in an election like this some ways, getting the worst of both worlds. buck has been credible. we will see. >> there is a lot of similarity between the two races in that both cases, the testimonies are faced with this small government backlash against theç assertiv expansive agenda, pursued in washington, particularly among rural voters, they are going to have a lot of trouble in nevada and colorado among rural voters, especially in colorado, the thing that might save bennett, hopefully will s

>> here in colorado, colorado is one.t is a little over-stated legislators put it on the ballot. we don't know how the people in the states feel about it, right? >> in two of the states that's true. in arizona and oklahoma the legislature voted to put these measures on the bat local -- ballot. colorado had to do a signature drive to get theirs on the ballot. >> greta: any idea signatures they had to get in colorado? >> colorado the bar is not high. you don't need an overwhelming number of signatures. it does seem like the measure is popular from the number of signs you see it is called amendment 63 there's quite a bit of campaigning in favor of it. the other one that is almost certain to pass is arizona's measure. arizona had an identical measure on its ballot in 2008, which as you know was a hugely democratic year. in the face of that tide arizona nearly passed it, it failed by less than 1% of the vote before there was a federal health care plan on the table. >> greta: arizona a little upset with the federal government t

from blinding snow in colorado. >> wish i would have gone through albuquerque. >> reporter: to funnel clouds in tennessee. 1 million square miles of land, have fallen squarely in the path of a weath >> it sounds like a freight train. you don't hear the whistle. it was like an explosion of glass everywhere. >> reporter: at least half a dozen tornadoes set off sirens all across the midwest. >> all of a sudden, the sky got black. and you really -- you couldn't even see out the window. and i heard the crackling sounds. it lasted about ten seconds. looked outside. and the tree was laying on the ground. >> reporter: in ohio, leyland left his field when his wife warned a storm was on the way. >> i came in the house. about ten minutes later, a lot of debris started hitting the side of the house. >> reporter: he prayed in his house. a new minutes later, his house was the only thing left. >> i walked to the back door and looked out. and saw everything had been destroyed. >> reporter: some meteorologists call this the great lakes cyclone. hundreds of flights at chicago's o'hare airport were grou

particularly colorado. that's a state where i'm not president obama will be back there but the fact that you can send michelle obama. all the other states we'll probably see the president as well but colorado really jumped out at me as one state, huh, seeing the first lady, maybe we won't see the president there. >> there's the reason you are the political director, chuck. >> we'll see! thanks, norah, for the plug. >>> in afghanistan, new information about the death of that british aide worker. linda norgrove. her botched rescue attempt may have been the fault of u.s. soldiers trying to save her from her kidnappers. nbc's jim miklaszewski is live from the pentagon. mick, i understand that general petreaus wants to have a deeper investigation on this. tell us more. >> that's right. when it rises to that level, chuck, you got to believe this is serious. both british and american service members, militaries, decided that this rescue effort was probably the best chance to get this british aide worker out alive

let you travel in through colorado. san francisco actually with that wind in that direction, going to see a very warm day today. one of the warmer spoets. actually, in all of the west. that's a rarity. that's a look at your tuesday forecast. now he a warm fall in california, especially the san francisco area. prescott, pretty warm today too. looking at wednesday coming up. >> bill, look forward to it. thanks. >>> wall street is ready to ring in record play. who thinks playing with the boss will get you a promotion? your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, courteney cox and david arquette are making news with their marriage. what's the real deal with one of your fave rids "friends." >>> the giants try to finish off bobby cox and the braves. plus, could brett farve put aside all of the distractions and help the vikings beat the jets? >>> you're watching "early today." >> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm thomas roberts. here are some of your top headlines this morning -- presi

in colorado and across the country.o break the reliance on foreign oil, stop sending billions of dollars a week to the persian gulf to regimes that turnaround and send money to arm and equip terrorists overseas and use those funds instead to invest in energy in the united states. colorado has seen 20% growth in clean energy jobs and natural gas jobs as well. that is what we need to fight for. >> 94% of business in colorado are small businesses. if we're going to get out of the economic slump in colorado, we need to encourage small businesses to expand. they will not right now because they do not have the certainty to risk capital in the marketplace. they don't know what their health care is going to be in three years, with their tax bill is going to be, what their energy bill is going to be, they don't know how hard regulators are going to come down on them. we had a dramatic lurch to the left in government and it has caused uncertainty in the marketplace and we need to make sure those folks have certainty by making sur

we tend to not have them dry at the same time it's one of our primary areas or defenses, we get colorado okay okay, north california, and local in our south california region that supplies almost half the water we use and then through one of our member agencies city of los angeles the east si' ras and this year is it's becoming depress ingly clear and 07' is shaping up that all of them are well below normal. every single area. hoping that it's not a trend and a depressing state for me as my first years general manager. , brad will talk first hand he's on the faculty of university of colorado the

i'll do what is right for colorado. not the big spenders in washington. >> so in my view -- >> political watchers in colorado observe the well-funded slew of attack ads on buck has not resulted in leap forward for bennett in the poll. >> it looks like the democratic assault, the argument that the candidate; in particular, ken buck, too extreme has not taken hold at least in colorado. buck has withstood this onslaught. >> the majority of coloradans will vote by mail. those ballots go out october 12. time is running short for senator bennett to pull out the second election of his life. the first winning the primary two months ago to get his name on the november ballot. >> bret: alicia acuna live in denver tonight. thank you very much. >>> those are just some of the races we're watching on the fox big board. we will have the big board out for the next 25 days before the mid-term election. more politics in the grapevine. including a first pitch that probably won't win a senate candidate many votes. up next, another roster c

that is a colorado needs. i would love your support. i think i can make colorado into the great state it deserves to be -- it is and it deserves to be. [applause] >> thank you very much for a lively debate. i think we all learned a lot. thank you for allowing me to be a part of it. stick around, because the congressional candidates will be debating. let's give these gentlemen one final round of applause. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the cook political report rates the colorado governor's race as likely democratic. >> this week, the final installment on our series looking at privacy and telecommunications policy. the chairman and ranking member on the house subcommittee of communications technology and the internet will be our guest. >> this is the communicators online privacy series. this is week four in our series. we're pleased to be joined by the ranking member of the commerce subcommittee on communications. he and the chairman of the co

." >>> and a shocking skeleton just flies out of ken buck's close net colorado. the former district attorney refused to take a rape case because he suspected that the victim had "buyer's remorse" over her boyfriend. more on that one in the playbook. coloradoans, do you know about this story? >>> all that plus a federal judge orders the united states military to stop enforcing don't ask, don't tell. sarah palin backs the hickey blue collar, look in west virginia. and john mccain suggestion up the fox. we are getting it all in tonight "the ed show" on msnbc. stay with us. thank you very much. why don't you show me your portfolio? i'd love to... see where it says history? there's a history? yeah, it'll take you right back to the site you were just on. well the last site... [ british vo ] and now, cycle complete. the male wildebeest returns to propagate the herd. [ animal grunts ] can you forward me this link? [ male announcer ] e-trade. investing unleashed. nny w re just knows how to make things can you forward me this link? that are good for you. new v8 v-fusion +