Mitt Romney won the Florida primaries convincingly Tuesday, adding 50 delegates to his total count. He still needs over 1,000 additional delegates to secure the GOP nomination for president.
The Post mostly used AP stories in its coverage of the primary results, although one of these AP stories was a photo slideshow that provided great behind-the-scenes looks at the primary. The Denver Post also covered the fact that Ron Paul and Rick Santorum had immediately moved out West to focus on the next several primaries in Nevada and Colorado. So the Denver Post's coverage of the primaries would expectedly pick up in the next week as it prepare's for its own state's primary.Romney moved back to focusing on the president during his victory speech, sounding confident once again that the nomination would be his. I was suprised by Rick Santorum's rather upbeat outlook on the results, saying that Gingrich's loss meant that the main competitor's spot to Romney was once again prime for the taking, and that he would be the candidate to do it.

In our elections class last week, we discussed how great news will be different, covering different aspects of events that other news outlets are not reporting. The Denver Post definitely did not do that with the Florida primaries, although this did not come as a suprise to me as the Florida primaries was probably not important enough to the people of Colorado for the paper to send its own reporters out to do in-depth coverage.

President Barack Obama delivered what may be his final State of the Union Address Tuesday night, and the Denver Post was on top it all.

The Denver Post had the State of the Union preview on its home page the whole day leading up to the address, and then had live updating coverage of the address throughout the speech and featured on the homepage for as long as two days after the address.

In addition to its articles covering the address, the Denver Post also posted a State of the Union photo slideshow on its homepage. This slideshow was very impressive, as it had photos of workers preparing for the address behind the scenes, in addition to shots showing the high security for the night.

I live-tweeted the State of the Union (#SOTU), which you can check out from my Twitter account (@Benjsheehan3). As a political junkie, I would have watched the address regardless of any assignment I had with it, but reading some of the Denver Post's articles on it provided me with more knowledge about local reactions to the address.

One of the first things I noticed about the Denver Post was the different things it covers compared to the local newspapers of Chicago and Milwaukee that I traditionally read. The Winter X Games (which typically have but a small article buried in the sports section in the Chicago Tribune) were worthy of the DenverPost.com homepage, as they are held in Colorado.

An article about the lack of snow and its effects on the skiing season also was featured on the homepage, something that is ordinary I'm sure for people in Denver, but something I just am not used to seeing covered prominently.

And of course, Tim Tebow was featured on the homepage. If I had been covering the Denver Post last semester, I can only imagine how much Tim Tebow I would have been reading about. Did you know there is a brewery in Colorado that has started a "Tebrew," which a picture of a him Tebowing on the the beer label?

However, the Post does not only focus on local issues. I was rather impressed with its sections dealing with national and international news, including its political coverage. Politics will be a very important and hot-button issue in the coming months, and I am confident that the Post has the tools necessary to fully cover this news.