Bennet/Buck Race Tied

I was hoping President Obama's favorite ed deformer, Michael Bennet, would have his corporate ass handed to him in the general election, but his Tea Party opponent Ken Buck has done his best to lose the race and it looks like it is working:

Colorado's U.S. Senate race has clenched into a dead heat nine days before polls close, as incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet climbed to meet GOP hopeful Ken Buck's early lead, each man garnering 47 percent support among likely and actual voters, according to a Denver Post/9 News poll.

The tightening race — three weeks ago, Buck was 5 percentage points ahead — is reflective of a handful of factors, some unique to Colorado, some not.

Democrats nationally have burnished their ground game and get-out-the-vote efforts in recent weeks, galvanizing old 2008 enthusiasm that didn't exist over the summer.

In the Colorado governor's race, Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo are battling for the same group of right-leaning voters in a spectacle that observers say has dampened natural Republican enthusiasm this year.

This could hurt Buck when, in any other circumstance, a strong Republican gubernatorial nominee would only help him.

But the Weld County district attorney has also had a series of public gaffes in recent weeks that have likely tempered some of his early energy coming out of the August primary victory as the Tea Party underdog, observers say.

"Buck keeps stepping on his own message," said University of Colorado at Boulder political scientist Ken Bickers. "I think his message indiscipline has curtailed some of that enthusiasm."

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University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said U.S. Senate races across the country — there are currently eight "toss-up" states — have tightened, in part, because of the Tea Party candidates.

"The Tea Party candidates are weaker than the mainstream Republican alternative they defeated in the primary," Sabato said, noting he would have expected Buck's primary opponent, Jane Norton, to be doing better in the general election. "They pride themselves on the fact they speak their minds, but there are real-world costs in doing that. Every word matters in politics."

Momentum for Bennet, expect him to pull this out.

And that's a shame, because that will be one more vote for Obama's Ed Deform/Bash Teachers education policy when NCLB gets voted on for re-authorization.

Buck is a moron and a crazy person, but on education he will almost certainly NOT be a vote for the Obama education policy.

And education policy is the ONLY thing I care about these days when looking at a candidate.

So many of the corporate-owned Dems running, and ALL of the Dems supported by Barack Obama, are CERTAIN votes for the Obama/RttT/Bash Teachers policies.

Those Dems I am not supporting.

Not for ANY reason.

And Michael Bennet is emblematic of those corporate-owned Dems.