Tea party favorite Ken Buck has ground out a grassroots victory over a candidate hand-picked by D.C. Republicans. A week ago no one would have taken that outcome to the bank.
Buck, who ran an upstart, topsy-turvy campaign fit for an outsider, began as an underdog, leapfrogged to frontrunner status by midsummer but then lost traction in the final weeks due to a string of verbal gaffes that had the GOP consultant class rolling their eyes.
But he also eviscerated the conventional wisdom that the record-breaking GOP turnout would benefit his opponent, former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton.
"The conventional wisdom turned out to be wrong. The anti-establishment message was the decisive factor," said Rob Witwer, a former GOP state representative. – More -
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