Colorado Senate: Salazar 47% Coors 41%; Salazar 49% Schaffer 37%

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 4/15/04

[LdSentinal]

April 15, 2004--Pete Coors (R) is a political newcomer, but he's already competitive in the race for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat. A day after announcing his entry into the race, Coors trails Attorney General Ken Salazar (D) by just six percentage points, 47% to 41%.

Salazar has a bigger lead over former Representative Bob Schaffer (R), 49% to 37%. The nominees for each party will not be officially determined until an August 10 primary.

The candidates are campaigning for a seat currently held by popular Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Campbell cited health reasons for stepping down. With Campbell in the race, the seat was sure to remain in Republican hands. Once he dropped out, things started breaking for the Democrats and it looked like a seat that might switch parties this November.

With the entry of Coors into the race, it is impossible to tell which party will emerge victorious on Election Day in Colorado.

[LdSentinal]

Rasmussen -- take it or leave it. Mostly leave it.

[ambrose]

Encouraging. right now, I'd chalk up Salazar's numbers to name recognition.

[GiveEmDubya]

Coors is too big a name to not win this seat. Bush is going to probably win Colorado nicely (he won by nearly 10% in 2000), and will likely create some coattails anyway.

Salazar might be a popular politician, but I would be baffled if a guy like Coors with his money, name, and all the GOP big guns behind him doesn't win.

[KQQL]

lol

[KQQL]

@

[KQQL]

FL

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Right now, an election match between Castor and either of these Republicans would be a toss-up. It's McCollum 42% Castor 41% and Castor 43% Martinez 40%. All those results are well within the survey 4.5 percentage point margin of error.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Florida_Senate%20April.htm

[Clintonfatigued]

This is good news. Salazar is not the shoo-in that he was supposed to be. Now the question is, how important is this race to Bob Schaffer? Would he reconsider his candidacy in light of the news?

[KQQL]

FL:


McCollum 42% - Castor 41% -Other 4%
Castor 43% - Martinez 40% - Other 5
Rasmussen Poll
MOE+/-4.5% 04/13/04

Castor 39% - McCollum 38%
Castor 39% - Martinez 36%
Mason Dixon Poll
MOE+/-4% (Reg Voters) 03/30-31 to 04/01/04
............
Dem Primary.
Castor 33%
Deutsch 16%
Penelas 9%

GOP Primary.
MCCollum 27%
Mertinez 18%
Webster 8%
Byrd 6%
Gallagher 5%

[KQQL]

CO:

Salazar 47% - Coors 41% - Others 3%
Salazar 49% - Shaffer 37% - Others 5%
Rasmussen Poll
MOE+/-4.5% 04/14/04

Salazar 49% - Shaffer 34%
Salazar 54% - Liniger 24%
Rocky Mountain News/News 4 poll
MOE+/-4.9% 03/31-04/01/04

[VadeRetro]

A "Free Beer" platform might be credible in this race.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Was the poll of likely voters or registered voters?

[KQQL]

CO:

Salazar 47% - Coors 41% - Others 3%
Salazar 49% - Shaffer 37% - Others 5%
Rasmussen Poll
MOE+/-4.5% (likely Voters) 04/14/04

Salazar 49% - Shaffer 34%
Salazar 54% - Liniger 24%
Rocky Mountain News/News 4 poll
MOE+/-4.9% (Reg Voters) 03/31-04/01/04

[AuH2ORepublican]

Thanks.

[Torie]

yep, I agree.

[CommerceComet]

Name recognition? Is there any name in Colorado more recognizable than Coors?

I would attribute the deficient to the fact that Coors just announced and hasn't had time to get anything established yet. Unless he is a complete dolt as a candidate, I would think that Coors will win. Of all the non-pols who might run, I assume the Democrats would most fear Coors and his money.

[KQQL]

Colorado: Bush 49% Kerry 44%
Colorado 2004 Presidential Ballot

Bush 49%
Kerry 44%
Other 4%
Not Sure 3%
RasmussenReports.com

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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Colorado_April.htm

The telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters in Colorado was conducted by Rasmussen Reports April 14, 2004. The margin of sampling error for the full Florida sample is +/- 4.5 percentage points, with a 95% level of confidence.

[KQQL]

CO

[LdSentinal]

Yup. And according to the poll, Bush has a 54% approval rating.

Rasmussen - Belch.

[KQQL]

I wrote to him today that his state polls are JUNK !

He wrote back and said MASON Dixon poll was take 10 days ago and his FL is fresh,,,and blah blah..blah....

RASMUSSEN Polls have a +2 to +3% bias towards dems, I guess he's scared to screw up like he did in 00.
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If W is up by 2% in OR and -1 to +4% in NJ, then there is no W is behind Kerry in Fl.

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I also think doing 1 day poll is a joke like Rasmussen does on his state polls