Romanoff wins top billing on Democrats' U.S. Senate ballot

BROOMFIELD — Andrew Romanoff won more than 60 percent of state delegates Saturday, pushing him to the top line of the Democrats' primary ballot over Sen. Michael Bennet and giving his supporters new hope for August.

Romanoff, the former state House speaker, won 60.4 percent of more than 3,500 delegates at the Democratic State Assembly, improving on his earlier caucus totals of about 57 percent. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, appointed to the seat 16 months ago, won 39.6 percent of the delegates.

That guarantees Bennet the second line on the primary ballot but is a slight drop from his caucus totals. Romanoff said after the ballots were counted that some fundraisers had told him they were waiting for good results Saturday before committing money to him.

He believes he will raise enough to be on television, a key feature in combating Bennet's multimillion-dollar fundraising operation.

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