Posted on 08/26/2010 2:21:17 PM PDT by NorCoGOP
Weld District Attorney Ken Buck has opened a 9 percentage point lead in his bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., according to a poll released Wednesday.
The Reuters/Ipsos Public Affairs poll of 453 likely voters shows Buck leading Bennet 49 percent to 40 percent, with 10 percent unsure and 1 percent opting for a third party. The poll had a margin of error of 4.6 percentage points.
A Rasmussen Reports Poll earlier this month showed Buck leading 46 percent to 41 percent.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey also polled 601 registered voters. This poll showed the race as a statistical dead heat, with Buck leading 44 percent to 40 percent, with a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
» He said, he said: On the same day the poll was released, the Buck campaign took Bennet to task for statements he made at a town hall meeting in Greeley on Saturday.
At the wide-ranging town hall, Bennet said the fact federal salaries outstrip private sector wages is problematic.
“I have run large institutions like the Denver Public Schools in very, very tough times when we had to restrain the growth of wages in order to get through those times,” he said. “We need to look at the growth of our price tag on discretionary spending as well. Part of that is making sure that our wages aren't growing faster than inflation, or faster than our growth.”
The Buck campaign took him to task for voting in favor of an omnibus spending bill that included a 2 percent increase in pay for federal employees, and for having voted against a measure that would have blocked pay hikes for federal employees.
“Coloradans deserve better from their senator than this type of shell game, especially when they're paying the bill,” Buck said in a press release.
The 2 percent pay raise came as one part of a large funding bill that provided funding for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development. The HUD portion of the bill included things such as funding for housing counselors to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.
Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid said Bennet has, in fact, worked to restrain federal spending.
“Michael has led the fight for fiscal responsibility in Washington,” he said in an e-mail. “He introduced a bill to freeze Congressional office budgets while the economy struggles and has voted for legislation to eliminate the automatic pay raise for members of Congress.”
Kincaid said Bennet refused a pay raise himself, doesn't accept federal health benefits and returned more than $300,000 from his office budget last year to the treasury.
» ON THE AIR: Independent political groups have bought ads this week attacking each candidate in the Colorado Senate race. Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a group linked to former Bush strategist Karl Rove, spent $425,000 for a one-week ad buy across the state that takes Bennet to task for support of spending measures. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also bought ad time for an ad that capitalizes on a Buck campaign gaffe. The ad refers to an answer Buck gave on the campaign trail where he said he supports the repeal of the 17th Amendment, which allows for the direct election of U.S. senators. Buck later said he misspoke and called to the questioner to explain. The ad doesn't mention Buck's explanation.
The DSCC hasn't said how much the ad buy cost, but Buck campaign spokesman Owen Loftus told the Associated Press it cost more than $400,000.
This is huge momentum for Buck - he has almost doubled the lead he had the day after the primary, when he polled up 5%
ANY DEMOCRAT, Not leading by 20 points, is in REAL trouble.
This is going to be a 100+ seat swing election.
Control of BOTH chambers.
Now... we will then DO anything?
That is where our focus should be.
Now... we will then DO anything?
That is where our focus should be.
We’ll have to hold their feet to the fire.
That should be the message, over and over again.
They rammed it down OUR throats now it’s our turn to ram it down THEIR throats!!!!!
Bennet voted for every big spending bill that Reid brought to the floor. He is a 100% Hussein leftist sock puppet. Then he has the nerve to come back to Colorado and run ads about how “out of control” Washington is and how he wants to go back to D.C. and “clean it up”. Bennet is a leftist liar and if reelected will return to D.C. and back every leftist initiative that is presented. I am hoping that this 9 point deficit is his high water mark.
wow
By my calculations winnning this will get us to 50-50 in the senate.
We tried to tell Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) and she ignored us...
“According to polls, she’s got a lot of work to do. The latest numbers show her trailing John Boozman by 37 points, a larger margin that the 27 percent of Arkansans who support her.”
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August 25, 2010
Save-the -Senator-Program
Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat and chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has been seeking $1.5 billion in disaster relief for rice and cotton growers in Arkansas and other Southern states who were hurt by heavy rains. The White House seems all too eager to oblige an important Democrat who is in a very difficult re-election race.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/opinion/26thu3.html
According to an analysis by the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy group, a large chunk of the aid — some $210 million — would go to Arkansas, including 270 farms that would be eligible for $100,000 each. All in all, this looks to us like a save-Blanche-Lincoln program rather than a save-the-farmer program.
Everyone who voted ObamaCare should be kicked out of office and have their pension taken to pay for it.
Waitaminnit, CO Freepers, weren’t we told that Obama had a “great victory” in CO cause his guy won the primary? And now “his guy” is getting his anus handed to him?
Funny feeling here. A tremor in The Force...
It always strikes me as odd that several weeks before any election takes place, these polls showing the librats in trouble come out.
I feel like these announcements are a kind of covert klaxon call for the ACORN fraudsters to engage the fake voting machines, activate their operatives, and unleash their drones.
We all must watch and document any discrepancies. Our nation is at risk.
The 10% undecided will swing for Buck. If they were going to vote for the incumbent, they would already know it.
Yes, it appears the Democrat Party is going to get destroyed on November 2, 2010. But, let me caution you all out there. Now is not the time to get full of ourselves. I remember my rooting for the NY Jets years ago. They would go into the locker room at half time with a 17-10 lead and think they could coast to victory without working in the second half. Of course, they always lost the game. “It ain’t over till its over!!!” My way is to go into the locker room at half time with the score 50-3, and....then add another 25-30 points in the second half to ice the game with a slaughter, so to speak. So.....kindred spirits out there, get your butts out on election day and destroy every single Democrat you can. And....bring out Grandma, Grandpa, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, cousins, friends, business associates, church associates, “anyone and everyone” that is on “our” side. Vote November 2, 2010. Remember November!!!
[Now... we will then DO anything?]
That’s the problem. It is hard to move anything in the Senate without 60 votes. Also, the Republicans just won’t use the dirty tactics that the Rats used.
Bear Down
You're right - we need to "leave NO doubt" (another football quote) this November as to what Americans REALLY think of socialism...
Bennet's the funniest of them all - "Congress is out of control!" ads, yet votes IN LOCKSTEP with them...
If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
C ya!
In this case; running up the score is a beautiful thing...
McCain came to Colorado during the 2008 campaign to announce that if elected, he'd make destroying Colorado's economy a top priority. He made it clear in at least two speeches that, if elected, he'd move to reopen the Western Water Compact so that states down stream (like his home state of Arizona) could have greener lawns and golf courses at the expense of agriculture and business in upper basin states like Colorado.
You simply cannot believe the amount of (justified) bad publicity and bad feelings McCain garnered from his stupidity. People are funny about being told that they need to sacrifice their livelihoods for the candidate's home state. Go figure.
If people want to call McCain throwing away Colorado's vote with both hands and for no reason a "great victory" for Obama, I guess we can't stop them.
For your reading pleasure: http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_b6700db0-5b98-5dd8-ae48-fa27ee5ec866.html
Around the election in 2008, there was a website with photos of McCain campaign offices around the state. Many has just closed in the weeks leading up to the election or were only open for a few hours here and there. McCain did an astoundingly poor job in Colorado. That does not mean that Obama did all that well, just that his organization did better than McCain's.
Good points about getting out the vote, but we can’t stop there.
We won big in 1994 and then bungled it all away.
If we win big this time (and it looks more and more likely that we will), we need to press the advantage! The entire Obama agenda must be stopped in its tracks.
Whatever it takes...nothing gets through from their side.
You maybe right... I saw a map a few weeks ago that had Colorado leaning D. This is a big swing... This is what Morris predicted that Senate Seats not in play would become in play and the Republicans would take the Senate.
It’s beginning to look like a prarie fire.
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