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• Obama gets posterized

  Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 12 p.m.

  Hopeless? Looks like someone has lost "Hope." -- Michael Roberts...

• Now Announcing His Presidential Candidacy: Me!

  Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:30 a.m.

  Welcome to the Internet, where weirdness is as close as your mouse. Today's example: The video clip below, which allows users to insert any name they'd like into a mock news story about swelling support for an unknown presidential candidate. Of course, I entered my name, which magically pops up...

• Shiloh Benson Tillemann-Dick’s Veep Sheet

  Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 12:15 p.m.

  Shiloh Benson Tillemann Dick has a head – a very large head – for politics, one that stands out even among the feisty politicos of the colorful family profiled in the July 10 Westword. The 18-year-old correctly predicted Obama’s church affiliations would prove problematic – last August. Shiloh took time...

• Q&A With Tom Tancredo

  Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 6:37 a.m.

  The 2008 presidential race has special meaning for Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo. After all, he was part of the Republican candidates pack mere months ago – and in the hefty Q&A below, he recalls the good, the bad and the fugly parts of his experiences with humor and frustration, not...

• Q&A With Gary Hart

  Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 6:53 a.m.

  A number of Coloradoans have run for president, but no one came closer to actually winning the office than former Senator Gary Hart. In 1984, he presented a heated challenge to anointed party favorite (and subsequent landslide victim) Walter Mondale, ultimately falling short in large part because superdelegates -- a...

• Freedom Belle

  Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 8 a.m.

  Christine Smith wanted to be the first female president of the United States, the first Coloradan and the first Libertarian in the Oval Office. And the 41-year-old Golden woman, who ran a principled if underdog-style campaign, thought she had a good chance of winning her party’s nomination at its national...