Posted on 08/15/2010 5:25:08 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper now holds a double-digit lead in the three-way race for governor of Colorado.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Colorado Voters finds Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver, with 43% support. Businessman Dan Maes, the winner of Tuesday’s Republican Primary, captures 31% of the vote, while American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo trails with 18%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
This is the first poll conducted since Maes won the Republican primary.
It shows Maes with a bit more support than he had before the primary and Tancredo with a bit less support.
Hickenlooper’s level of support has been fairly steady for months, but he has clearly benefitted from Tancredo’s entry in the race which splits the Republican vote. The Democrat had run roughly even with Maes in two earlier surveys.
I’m an Independent !! Surprise !!!
I still say: Split the right half of the ticket and the left half wins.
That's not what I'm saying. But if you want your elected representatives to enforce immigration law, then don't vote for a 3rd party R spoiler. If you do, you all but guarantee a D victory....and certain non enforcement of immigration laws/amnesty.
You are right on the mark. If the GOP would stop kowtowing to the Chamber of Commerce and went after the American worker vote, they would be much more successful. The Dems have ditched the American worker and are bought and paid for by corporate and special interests. The GOP is not much better.
“Make it Maes/Tancredo”
I’m actually LOL picturing Dick Wad managing that scenario!
And your assumptions do? How much of that 18% would go to Maes and what would the turnout be? Voters will go to the polls if they have something to vote for. They need a choice, not an echo.
Then why isn’t Maes doing better than 31%?
Hickenlooper is viewed Very Favorably by 35% of voters in the state and Very Unfavorably by 24%.
For Maes, Very Favorables are 12% and Very Unfavorables 20%
Fourteen percent (14%) have a Very Favorable opinion of Tancredo, but 32% view him Very Unfavorably.
Maes is a Tea Party candidate. The guy he beat in the primary was the ‘relatively’ RINO candidate. If Tea Party candidates are too far left for you, then you will never, ever, back a winner.
‘What’s wrong with this picture?’
It is two years out of date.
My pet peeve is egotists who through their self-declared "purity" throw the country to the leftist wolves.
Despicable, Tom. Despicable.
‘Got TEA?’
Maes was the Tea Party candidate.
do people presume that the GOP candidate is a RINO simply because Tancredo is in the race?
And also, if the difference is 12 points, and Tancredo is getting 18 points, does it take a genius to figure out that the GOP would win with Tancredo out?
Finally, so Tancredo won his own congressional district. Great. Glad he represented his district as a conservative.
But winning your own state Senate, State Assembly, Congressional district doesn’t make you a viable statewide candidate
Tom McClintock (R-Calif) is a tremendous politician, a great guy, and I’d vote for him — and have — anytime (He was one of the GOP candidates in the recall election against Gray Davis and he’s been a statewide candidate since then, and I voted for him those two or three other times as well)
Still, just ask Tom McClintock how many statewide races he’s won in the general election. (Hint: The number of McClintock statewide victories in California is <1)
-George
>>I’m actually LOL picturing Dick Wad managing that scenario!
Biggus? He has a wife you know...PILATE: I've had enough of this wowdy webel sniggewing behaviour. Silence! Call yourselves Pwaetowian guards? You're not-- Seize him! Seize him! Blow your noses and seize him!
What a shame....for his own EGO.......Tancredo is going to help elect the Democrat!
Someone needs to convince him that he’s only hurting his cause & his state!
He should drop out & back Maes ASAP!
Maes/Tancredo(R)
The Democrats have been pursuing this strategy nationwide this year, particularly in Congressional races. Either they’ve been sponsoring bogus “Tea Party” candidates like they’ve been doing in Michigan and Florida, or or they’ve been helping perennial LaRouche-esque gadfly candidates like they’re doing in 8th District PA with Tom Lingenfelter to help keep Patrick Murphy in office.
Say e.g. Mitt Romney, supported by Tancredo in 2008.
I should add that I haven’t seen any evidence that the Democrats are encouraging or helping Tancredo here, nor do I think he really needed any help to get on the ballot. The results will be same, however.
BREAKING: Republicans Meeting with Maes Today on Pulling Out
by: Colorado Pols
Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 13:08:52 PM MDT
"...To be clear, the story is about high-level Republicans wanting Maes to get out of the race, or failing that to select a running mate from their approved roster. The only part of the "rumor" he has control over is his response--and for the time being anyway, there you have it. "http://coloradopols.com/diary/13434/breaking-republicans-meeting-with-maes-today-on-pulling-out
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