Word: bennet
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President Obama left the chill of Washington on Thursday to stump for a pair of ailing Democratic Senators in Western battleground states. In Denver, Obama flexed his fundraising muscles at a pair of events for Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado before heading to Nevada, where Senate majority leader Harry Reid is locked in a bitter contest. Democrats are hoping the sojourn, which comes on the heels of Indiana Senator Evan Bayh's surprise announcement that he will not stand for re-election this fall, will bolster the campaigns of two vulnerable candidates whose races could be key in preserving...
...Still, Sabato cautions that "sometimes, we're too quick to draw conclusions from two or three data points." He notes that in Colorado, where Bennet is fighting a primary challenge from former Colorado house speaker Andrew Romanoff, Obama has the potential to kindle a groundswell of grass-roots support. Bennet was appointed to the seat last year, when Obama tapped former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar to join his Administration as Secretary of the Interior. A recent poll put Bennet 14 percentage points behind in a potential matchup with Republican candidate Jane Norton. (See pictures of Obama's State...
...where Democrats see the President's visit as a way to build Bennet's network, opponents are working to tether the candidate to a President who looms as the most visible face in a virulently anti-incumbent cycle. "I think it's mixed," says Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster whose firm is working for Romanoff. "He brings a lot of publicity and attention, but he makes you kind of the insider candidate...