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   We turn now to the rapidly approaching
   mid-term elections.
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   If you want to understand why
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   the Senate Democratic majority
   is in danger,
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   you'll need look no further
   than the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado.
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   I'm all sweaty-- how are you?
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   Aren't we all?
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   (Gwen Ifill) At first blush, it may seem
   that Colorado's senate race
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    between incumbent Mark Udall
    and Congressman Cory Gardner,
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    has boiled down to two men
    fighting over women's issues.
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    (advertising narration) Congressman
    Cory Gardner's history,
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    promoting harsh anti-abortion laws
    is disturbing.
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    That's Senator Udall's campaign.
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    Senator Udall is a social issues warrior.
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    He wants to talk about nothing else.
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    It's something that they
    campaigned on four years ago
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    when Michael Bennett
    was running in Colorado,
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    It won then, they did it again in 2012,
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    and so they think that same playbook
    will win again in 2014.
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    He's saying that I'm
    a social issues warrior.
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    In fact, he is.
    I'm an economic issues warrior.
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    You talk to women,
    this is about economics.
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    It's also about respect.
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    And Colorado's fiercely independent,
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    we're Libertarians,
    and we respect our freedoms.
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    And we think government, above all,
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    should not be involved
    in those really private decisions.
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    (cheering and applause)
    Hey, Colorado, how are you doing?
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    (Ifill) But the critical election day
    question may be,
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    "Which women are they speaking to?"
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    You guys can canvass the doors together--
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    (Ifill) Are they speaking
    to women like Cathy Alderman,
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    who's been campaigning against
    an anti-abortion ballot initiative?
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    They can vote for somebody who supports
    women and supports women's ability
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    to access the healthcare services
    they need,
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    versus somebody who was willing
    to limit that access
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    and has spent an entire political career
    trying to limit that access.
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    Yeah, let's do it. Shall we get it?
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    Or, are they appealing
    to women like Briana Johnson,
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    A mother of three,
    who describes herself as pro-life?
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    It's hard when a group of women
    is coming on and claiming
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    to speak for the entire population
    of women.
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    Because I don't,
    I don't relate to that.
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    They say Cory Gardner is too extreme
    for the women of Colorado.
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    Well, that's not what I believe
    and it immediately alienates me
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    64 year-old Udall who is just completing
    his first term in the Senate,
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    is one of a handful
    of Democratic incumbents
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    under sustained political fire this year.
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    His nemesis? A 40 year-old,
    two-term Congressman,
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    who says the country and Colorado,
    are due for a mid-term,
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    mid-course correction, that only a
    Republican Senate majority can deliver.
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    Udall's predicament is especially
    perilous because of Colorado's reputation
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    as a notoriously unpredictable State.
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    President Obama has won twice here,
    but many of the State's voters
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    see themselves as outliers,
    who are as likely to legalize marihuana,
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    as expand oil exploration.
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    I think the people of Colorado
    are very independent.
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    And I think that as soon as they feel
    like they are pidgeon-holed or labelled,
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    as more Democratic, or more Republican,
    they're gonna switch, they're gonna move.
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    They don't like being told who they are.
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    It's time to get the vote out!
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    For voters throughout the West,
    the name Udall is a known quantitiy.
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    Mark Udall's father, Boris, was
    a Senator from Arizona.
    
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    And he also has two cousins
    in the Senate now:
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    Utah's Republican Mike Lee
    and New Mexico's Democrat Tom Udall
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    I'm a mountain climber, you all know that,
    you don't smoosh your way up a mountain,
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    you don't trash-talk your way
    up a mountain,
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    you just climb the thing.
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    This is a mountain we're climbing,
    let's go climb it!
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    I'm proud to be your United Sates Senator,
    I look forward
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    to a very successful election night.
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    But Gardner treats Udall's
    political history as a liability.
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    He is the Senate.
    18 years in politics,
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    and he has two cousins
    who are Senators too.
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    Adds like these have transformed Udall's
    re-election bid into
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    a bitterly contested tossup.
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    My dad, well, he sells tractors.
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    Last week, Gardner won the surprise
    endorsement of the State's biggest
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    newspaper, which derided the incumbent
    for fighting, what they described,
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    as a one issue campaign.
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    Udall shrugs off the whole town rebute.
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    The Denver Post doesn't think
    women's reproductive rights are important,
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    that's their decision.
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    But that's an improtant part
    of my campaign.
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    Norman Provizor,
    a political science professor
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    at Metropolitan State University in Denver
    says Gardner has another advantage:
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    a more affable approach
    to conservative politics.
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    He's one of the most conservative
    members of the House,
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    but he comes across
    as a kind of Tea Party member,
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    without the steam.
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    Instead of steam, he has a smile.
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    So he's kind of put a kinder,
    gentler face,
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    on some policies which many people think
    are very harsh.
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    Thomas Unterwagner, who stopped off
    at a weekend farmer's market
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    in the midst of a 40-mile bike ride,
    is supporting Udall.
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    He thinks the Senator is in a tight race
    because of where he works, Washington.
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    I think, most basically,
    the problem is,
    
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    I think they blame whoever
    is in office currently, the incumbent.
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     And whether they're economically doing
     well or not,
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     they still blame the incumbent,
     for some reason.
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     Adding to the uncertainty this year
     is this new twist:
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     Colorado is joining Oregon
     and Washington State
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     in sending every voter a ballot
     to cast by mail.
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     A shift that could determine the outcome,
     as well as what it means,
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     to 'Get Out the Vote.'
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     (Woman on the phone)
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     "We're just letting voters know that
     the ballots are coming in this Tuesday..."
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     Both parties say the campaign ground game--
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     door-knocking, phone-calling, debating--
     could make the difference in an election
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     when the polling place comes to you.
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     "Put two first-class stamps on it,
     and send it back in the mail."
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     But, voter after voter we talked to said
     they are exasperated
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     by the tone of a campaign that has
     cluttered the airwaves
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     with negative advertising
     paid for by the candidates,
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     and by outside groups who support them.
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     (Advertisement Narration) "Udall hasn't
     changed Washington, it's changed him."
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     "They go after one another's personalities
     so sometimes I tend to tune out,
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     you know, to some degree at this time of
     the year."
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     "I already know what I want and what I
     think is right,
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     so they're just aggravating."
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     This Rocky Mountain election also features
     a running debate about the four E's:
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     Education, Energy, the Environment,
     and the Economy.
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     But central to the choice between Udall
     and Gardner- who cleared the Republican
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     field when he decided to enter the race-
     is whether the victory will tip control
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     of the Senate to the GOP.
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     (Interviewer) "Is your campaign about
     defeating Mark Udall, who's (COME BACK HERE)
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     Senator, or trying to get that majority?"
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     (Gardner) "I felt that the one way that we
     could really change the direction
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     this country is heading wasn't by staying
     in a safe Republican House seat,
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     sending out fancy press releases about
     legislation that would never see
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     the light of day, because of Harry Reid;
     but it was about changing the majority-
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     about becoming number fifty-one,
     so that we could actually do something
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     to move this country forward,
     for the people of this nation."
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     (Udall) "In the end, this is about
     Colorado, and what I've delivered
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     for the state of Colorado."
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     (Interviewer) "And yet, the outcome
     of this race could determine the control
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     of the U.S. Senate."
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     (Udall) "It certainly could, but my focus
     has been on making the case
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     to voters here; as to what I've done for
     the state, what I will do in a second term
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     when I'm rehired."
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     But for many Colorado voters,
     the problem is neither Udall nor Gardner.
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     It's Washington itself.
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     "I think Congress is such a mess that I
     don't think anybody's getting what
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     they really want. I don't really know how
     to fix it.
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     (Interviewer) "Does that mean that you
     might not vote this time?"
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     (Brown) "Oh no, I'll vote.
     I always vote."
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     The candidates meet in their fifth and
     final debate on Wednesday.
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     "You can watch my full interviews with
     Mark Udall and Cory Gardner
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     on our rundown."