Romney to return next Monday, Obama Tuesday

   Politics are heating up and the main candidates are sweating it out in the East today, and they are already planning their return to cooler climes. Perhaps they need to beat the heat, maybe they want to acclimatize themselves to the elevation before next week's big day, but both candidates will be spending time in Colorado early next week.  The GOP candidate will return to the capital next Monday, holding a rally in Denver two days before DU holds its first-ever presidential debate, the first of the season. Governor Romney will speak at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, but the focus of his speech hasn't yet been released.  President Obama will catch up Tuesday at CSU in Fort Collins where he's expected to talk about what his administration has done to make college more affordable. Today, both candidates were in VA.

Craig Romney greeting voters earlier this month

   As Romney and Obama circle each other today in Virginia, Romney's veep pick Paul Ryan and son Craig Romney were in the state today making the case for their candidate. The junior Romney was speaking at the Adams County Victory Center to Hispanic voters, focusing on his father's economic policy which he contends will work better for them than the previous four years of Obama. Of course, the Hispanic vote in Colorado is growing and Romney hopes to peel away some of this socially conservative bloc from their tendency to vote the Democrat; perhaps the GOP senses that with unemployment riding high among Hispanics, now is the time to go for it.  Ryan is in Fort Collins today, where he spoke this afternoon to an audience at America the Beautiful Park. "And these defense cuts that [Obama] is promising, these devastating defense cuts that he is promising not only undermine our peace, not only undermine our security, they compromise jobs right here.” 

   The debate is next Wednesday, October the 3rd, at the University of Denver's Magness Arena. The location doesn't really matter, because you can't get in. But it sounded professional so I put it there anyway, in case you want to stand outside or something.