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denverpost.com - 10/24/2008

National GOP group pulling ads in Colo. Senate ads backing Schaffer - The Denver Post

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee is pulling out of the battle for Colorado's Senate seat, yanking its ads from television stations across the state beginning next week, according to an NRSC spokesman. That decision leaves Republican Bob Schaffer on his own to try and close what some ...

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