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November 4, 2010 2:22 PM EDT
Colorado's close Senate race was finally settled Wednesday as Democrat Michael Bennet held on to keep his seat in the U.S. Senate, narrowly defeating tea party-backed Republican Ken Buck.
The race was too close to call Tuesday evening and into the next day. An acceptance speech by Bennet came late Wednesday morning after several media outlets started calling the race.
"Colorado chose to move our state and this country forward. I will do everything I can to live up to the confidence you have placed in me," he said in a statement.
Bennet won with 799,072 votes versus Buck's 783,426 votes, with 97.9 percent of districts reporting, as of Thursday morning.
Despite the stream of projections earlier, Buck's campaign waited until 5 p.m. local time to announce that Buck had conceded and called Bennet to congratulate him for the win.
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Buck said that while the final difference in votes was very small, Colorado voters had spoken.
"My Senate campaign has been the experience of a lifetime. I will be forever grateful to the thousands of Coloradans who helped make this grassroots journey possible," he said.
Bennet was appointed two years ago by Governor Bill Ritter to replace former Sen. Ken Salazar, who accepted an appointment as Secretary of the Department of the Interior in the Obama administration.
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