A pensive Ken Buck spent Tuesday night in a suite at the Doubletree Hotel waiting for returns in Colorado's Senate race, which was still too close to call.Six floors below Buck, Greeley Republican David Skarka, 30, was one of about 400 people who packed a conference room for the Colorado GOP Election Night watch party.
“I think it's going to be neck and neck,” he said. “I can't predict anything.”
The crowd's mood vacillated between anxious and thrilled as Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., jumped to an early lead, only to see Buck claw back to take a slim lead late. When a Denver television station showed Buck in the lead, a woman skipped across an open patch of floor in the conference room waving her arms above her head as the crowd chanted, “Let's go, Buck! Let's go, Buck!”
Buck and Bennet were just a few thousand votes apart with 71 percent of the projected vote counted, The Associated Press reported. In all, more than
1.4 million votes were cast for the two candidates, and thousands of provisional and write-in votes still needed to be counted. Neither side declared victory.
Some projections showed the race coming within a half of a percentage point, which would trigger a mandatory recount under state law.“There are still a lot of votes that need to be counted and we're optimistic that once those votes are counted Ken Buck will be the next senator from Colorado,” Buck campaign spokesman Owen Loftus said just before midnight as campaign staff evaluated numbers. – More -
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