Buddy Moore

The latest Rocky Mountain News/CBS4 U.S. Senate poll shows Democrat Mark Udall leading Republican Bob Schaffer 44 percent to 38 percent.

Independent candidate Buddy Moore polled 5 percent; Green Party candidate Bob Kinsey had 2 percent.

The poll of 500 likely voters, conducted between Aug. 11 and Aug. 13, has a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percent.

Cementing their exclusion of Buddy Moore from the Green ticket this year, the Colorado Green Party statewide council passed a resolution last week detailing why the would-be U.S. Senate candidate was an invalid candidate for the 2008 elections.

Moore claims party bylaws supersede state law and has threatened to sue the state Green Party to get on their primary ballot against Green U.S. Senate candidate Bob Kinsey.

Moore said he was "very disappointed" by the ruling, and said it was "unknown" if he would continue to campaign as a Green.

MooreIn his latest attempt to run for the U.S. Senate, Buddy Moore is finding it's not easy being Green.

Two months after being declared ineligible to run in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary, Moore is now being told he can't run for Senate on the Green Party ticket, either.

Colorado Green Party officials say Moore is ineligible to run under party bylaws and state law; Moore says they're misinterpreting the law and will sue if Green Party officials continue to exclude him from their party's primary ballot.

On Jan. 9, a 52-year-old former police officer and ski patrolman named Gail "Buddy" Moore walked into Colorado Democratic Headquarters in Denver and said he wanted to run for the United States Senate.

"Nobody knew who he was," said state Democratic party political director Billy Compton. "We had to look him up."

Unfortunately for Moore, state law and Colorado Democratic Party rules require political candidates to be registered with the party for at least a year before the November general election: Moore only signed up to be a Democrat last December.