“Andrew Romanoff” on The Daily Caller

One of the jobs floated by a top White House official to Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff, in an attempt to get him out of a primary challenge to an incumbent Democrat, would have paid him $165,300. (more)

President Obama complained recently that he had endured the toughest 18 months as a president of any since the Great Depression. (more)

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday morning — in an e-mail to reporters at 6:25 a.m. — that Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff had applied for a job at USAID prior to being contacted by a top administration official to see if he was still interested in the job. (more)

“There is a cancer on the presidency. It has been growing daily for the past three months. It’s compounding, it grows geometrically now because it compounds itself. And there is no assurance that it won’t bust.”  (more)

Democratic Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado, said late Wednesday that deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina said he could be given one of three high-ranking federal jobs if he gave up his candidacy. (more)

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration dangled the possibility of a government job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, officials said Wednesday, just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a job offer in the Pennsylvania Senate race. (more)

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs indicated Tuesday that Rep. Joe Sestak was not offered a spot on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board but refused to say what was dangled in front of the Democrat in an attempt to remove him from a Senate primary. (more)

[Arlen] Specter is a guest on a WSBA-radio show in York, Pennsylvania [March 12, 2010]. Since the show is in York, and not on national radio or television, Specter’s answer goes virtually unnoticed.  Asked about the topic, he says this, as noted above: (more)

With his signature health care plan—and perhaps his presidency— breaking on the shoals of an electorally challenged Democratic Congress, President Obama hosted a group of 10 wayward Democrats at the White House last week. But the biggest news to come out of the meeting was not any promised vote switches on health care among the president’s guests, but an ordinarily routine judicial appointment. That was because the administration chose to announce on the same day the nomination of Scott Matheson for a federal judgeship on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Matheson is the brother of Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah), who just happens to be one of the 10 Democrats the president was wooing on health care at the meeting. (more)

In 1984, singer-songwriter Tina Turner asked “What’s Love Got to Do with It” in her breakthrough solo album. This year, political observers find themselves asking the same thing about the massive infiltration of social media into political campaigns—“What’s Social Campaigning Got to Do with It?” As we see it, the answer is pretty simple for candidates running for the U.S. Senate: the difference between winning and losing. (more)

Rep. Joe Sestak’s admission that the White House tried to lure him out of a primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter made Pennsylvania the fifth state this cycle in which the Obama administration has tried unsuccessfully to clear the field for Democratic senate candidates. (more)

Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell on Wednesday blasted the Obama White House for creating “a world in which there is no dissent,” following his banishment from Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s campaign for Senate. (more)

On paper, it’s not just the Republican campaign fundraising arms that have money problems. Several of their Senate candidates do as well. (more)

WASHINGTON — With the 2010 election year barely under way, two senators and one governor — all Democrats — ditched plans to run for re-election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama’s party. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic sources tell The Associated Press that Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter won’t run for re-election this fall. (more)