With Election Day about three weeks away, we're getting close to finding out just how much force the tea party movement has had on this year's angry electorate. Sparked partly in response to the ballooning federal deficit and the debate over health care reform, the movement is attracting significant attention this election season.
Tea party-backed candidates around the country have seen some big primary victories — like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Joe Miller in Alaska and Rand Paul in Kentucky, all of whom knocked out U.S. Senate primary opponents who were considered the Republican Party's establishment candidates. The same is true in Colorado, where Senate candidate Ken Buck beat the GOP's early favorite, former state Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, in the Aug. 10 primary.
Tonight Buck will face current Sen. Michael Bennet, his Democratic opponent, in a debate hosted by The Denver Post. Bennet was appointed to replace Ken Salazar when President Obama tapped Salazar to be interior secretary. Neither Buck nor Bennet has run for congressional office before.
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