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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz says the Republican Party should learn from history that running a moderate candidate for president in 2016 wont galvanize voters and Hillary Clinton will be president.

The Texas Republican, a favorite of Tea Party supporters, said on CNBC today that the party needs to find a conservative candidate who can get voters to turn out -- someone like former President Ronald Reagan.

If Republicans run another candidate in the mold of a Bob Dole or a John McCain or a Mitt Romney, we will end up with the same result, which is millions of people will stay home on Election Day, Cruz said. And if we run another candidate like that, Hillary Clinton will be the next president.

Cruz said the former Republican presidential candidates are all decent men and patriots, but they didnt get voters to turn out the way Reagan did in 1980.

In the interview, Cruz discussed his view of what will happen if the Republican Party embraces a nominee such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. It echoed the comments this week of Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, vice chairman of the Republican Conference, who told Bloomberg News in an interview that Bush, 61, might represent the wrong direction for the party.

Bush, the son of President George H.W. Bush and brother of President George W. Bush, is a favorite of many establishment Republicans who want to avoid nominating a less-seasoned candidate in 2016.

Cruz, asked about Bush on CNBC, said, I like Jeb. Im a fan of Jeb Bushs. Cruz said he would wait to see if Bush decides to run.

The only way for Republicans to win, I believe, is to run a candidate who runs as a strong conservative with a positive, optimistic, hopeful message, Cruz said.

Cruz drew parallels to the 1980 election in which Reagan defeated President Jimmy Carter, who had served one term. He said the U.S. economy is in a similar state of stagnation and that an internationally naive foreign policy by President Barack Obama has lead nations such as Russia and Iran to be opening laughing at and mocking the president.

We need to learn from history, Cruz said today. We need to look to history for what works and what doesnt.

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Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton has a whopping 13-point lead over Democrat Mark Pryor in a new poll

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) Heres the good news for Republicans hoping to take over the Senate: Fresh polls released Thursday show a couple of their candidates with leads in key races.

The not-so-good news? Analysts are newly warning that control of the chamber wont be decided next week. So its too early for the GOP to declare victory.

The newest surveys show a lead for Republican Cory Gardner in Colorado and for the GOPs Tom Cotton in Arkansas, two battleground states that could help decide Senate control in the midterm elections. A Quinnipiac poll has Gardner leading incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall by seven points. In the new Arkansas Poll, meanwhile, Cotton is ahead of opponent Mark Pryor by a whopping 13 points. Pryor, like Udall, is a sitting Democratic senator.

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Gardners lead widened by two points since the last Quinnipiac poll. The Arkansas Poll is an annual survey, and is the best showing for Cotton of recent polls, including an NBC/Marist survey taken through Oct. 23 that showed the Republican congressman leading by just two points.

Republicans need a net six seats to win control of the Senate on Nov. 4, and prevailing in these two races would help clinch victory.

Election forecasts from the Upshot, fivethirtyeight.com and Sabatos Crystal Ball all point to a Republican takeover.

While many races remain close, its just getting harder and harder to envision a plausible path for the Democrats to retain control of the Senate, wrote Larry Sabato and his team on Thursday. Ultimately, with just a few days to go before the election, the safe bet would be on Republicans eventually taking control of the upper chamber.

Note that eventually. As they write, theres a decent chance Senate control wont be decided on Election Night, given likely runoffs in Louisiana and Georgia.

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BOULDER As many as 10 newly appointed Republican election judges are expected to be trained and in place by sometime Saturday to join the teams of workers charged with verifying Boulder County voters' signatures on ballot envelopes, county GOP chairwoman Ellyn Hilliard said Wednesday.

"I think we have things straightened out," said Hilliard, who earlier raised concerns about how few GOP judges the Boulder County clerk and recorder's office had hired to participate in overseeing the processing and tallying of voted ballots.

The Colorado secretary of state's office became involved, investigating how Boulder County recruited and appointed its 2014 general election judges as well as the makeup of the judge teams, which aren't supposed to include more than one member from any specific political party.

"We're trying to work on solutions to move the election forward to where the party chair and the party and the people can have some confidence in the process," deputy secretary of state Suzanne Staiert said Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) A former adviser to President Bill Clinton on Thursday said Congress will be more productive under complete Republican control.

Robert Wescott, who was a special assistant to the president for international economics and is now president of Keybridge, spoke to members of The National Economists Club Thursday at a luncheon, during which he offered predictions for the GDP (3% growth next year), the lay of the U.S. economic landscape and what policies they could expect to see come to the forefront come Nov. 4.

With a 67.2% chance of taking over in the Senate, according to FiveThirtyEights forecast, Wescott believes the possible right-controlled Congress will be more productive than that of previous years.

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I think the Republicans will want to prove something, Wescott said, show they can get some stuff done heading into 2016.

First order of business: The Affordable Care Act. Mentioning that there are also Democrats who would like to see something done with it, Wescott said he doesnt see any way they dont address the law.

The Affordable Care Act is going to be a biggie, Wescott said, offering Republicans choices as either repealing or reforming it. Its going to be one of the things to watch early on.

I would recommend the reform path but thats just my view.

The other big focus for Republicans will be corporate tax reform, or at least Wescott thinks so. While saying there are people on both sides who want lower corporate tax rates, Wescott mentioned a lot of people think theres not a snowballs chance this will happen.

But he sees it as an issue of great magnitude and importance that, if done, will help the economy continue to grow.

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DENVER, CO - JUNE 28: Republican Cynthia Coffman has announced her candidacy for attorney general. (Photo By Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post) (THE DENVER POST | Kathryn Scott Osler)

Republican John Suthers has been in the news on issues ranging from guns to gay marriage during his last year as attorney general, underscoring the importance of an office often overshadowed in Colorado politics.

Attorney general has a range of duties, from enforcing consumer-protection laws to working with the state's 22 district attorneys to serving as the chief legal counsel to the governor and branches of state government.

That's why Democrat Don Quick and Republican Cynthia Coffman argue over being the best candidate for the job and why they each have serious concerns about their opponent. Also running is Libertarian David K. Williams.

DonQuick.JPG Don Quick voters guide running for state attorney general candidate election (Daily Camera | Courtesy Photo)

Quick said Coffman wants to further a conservative agenda, not a Colorado agenda. His campaign slogan is "a prosecutor, not a politician." Coffman said Quick is not interested in defending all laws, but in picking his own "winners and losers."

Quick served as the chief deputy under Democratic Attorney General Ken Salazar and was elected to two terms as Adams County district attorney.

"I don't have a political agenda. I don't have any Democratic political agenda. I spent three out of my last four years prosecuting corruption in Adams County that involved ... Democrats," Quick said. "I've testified against bills that were sponsored by Democrats when I didn't think they were in the best interest of public safety."

Coffman, he said, announced during her speech to the Republican state assembly in April that she would be ready to band together with other GOP attorneys general to sue the federal government over a variety of issues, including the Second and 10th amendments.

"That's how she sees the job, as a political agenda," Quick said.

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