A number of recent polls of the Colorado Senate race all suggest the same thing: this is going to be a close one. Four separate pollsters have all shown Republican Ken Buck’s lead shrinking — or disappearing altogether.The battle between Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Buck has been heated since the primary. Both sides have run nasty ads, and the candidates have gone after each other at a number of debates. But just a few weeks ago, it looked like Buck was pulling away. Bennet is an incumbent in an anti-incumbent year, with close ties to President Obama. Buck, meanwhile, boasts Tea Party support, and had seemed to have learned to be more careful after a gaffe-plagued primary.
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