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.
Maes wouldn’t win the head to head match anyway. Tancredo is just sending the RINOs a message, i.e., no more holding our noses and voting for the lesser of two evils.
Exactly. We have no chance of winning as long as these purer-than-thou “conservatives” who have no chance of winning split the vote and hand the election to the Dems.
Someone needs to talk some sense into Tancredo. He is giving the spot to the rats.
Tancredo is a completer fool and moronic idiot if he stays in.
OoooooooooK!
does that deflect his being a spoiler???
The combined total for Maes and Tancredo is 49%, and I doubt that Tancredo's voters would be going for Hickenlooper. A united front would beat Hickenlooper.
But Tom's not the one with 31%. And it's later than you (and he) thinks.
If the Republicans were worth a crap, he wouldn’t have a reason to run.
Right so you stayed home in ‘08 rather than vote for McCain.
I get it.... you would rather have Obama....
so you would rather cut off your nose to spite your face...excellent choice....thanks for the HOPE AND CHANGE.(do I really need to say 'SARC'???)
“Sad to think there are still those willing to bore holes in their own ship while in deep water.”
I can’t figure out whether it is group insanity or unbearable self rightiousness. Whatever it is, it’s a nation killer.
Which brings up the obvious question: If you are doing something which is actively opposed to conservatism (such as splitting the vote with a conservative Republican so as to help elect a liberal Democrat), then can you really be considered a "conservative" anymore?
After all, "by their fruits ye shall know them." If you claim to be a conservative, but help shoot down a conservative (Maes is the Tea Party candidate...guess even the Tea Parties are not good enough for some of the purer-than-thous now...) candidate's campaign and elect a liberal Democrat instead, then you and your supporters cannot be considered conservatives.
Too early to tell. Tancredo also supports legalization of marijuana and homosexual marriage. Most die hard Republicans will not support him in the end but there are enough libertarian leaning voters to spoil the show.
Maes is not out of trouble yet, either. More keeps coming out on his finances and his past statements that lean left are coming back to haunt him. Maes says he’s still learning but his “instincts” are not as solid as conservative voters would like.
“Yes getting less than 20% is “sending a message”, especially if the guy wasn’t going to win the head to head anyway. Way to defeat your own argument. LOL”
So, you can see the future too? How do the food riots look to you?
Oh yeah...that's a winning strategy. This continued purity crap get us NOWHERE.
There's a better plan. Fight the good fight in the primary, and then support the winner of the primary.
When the choice is limited to one or the other.
We stand a better chance of forcing RINO officials to bend to our conservative wishes than we will a Democrat.
Does Colorado have a run-off rule? (i.e. if no one gets a majority of the vote, then there is a run-off between the top two candidates) If not, then the Republicans are screwed.
So how did Tancredo manage to get elected and reelected for a total of 5 terms. Do you even have an idea as to what Tancredo's position is? Have you ever heard of the immigration caucus in Congress headed by Bilbray? Steve King is a stalwart on immigration along with Chaffetz of Utah. Bennett lost in Utah in the primary to Lee who is strong on immigration.
Tancredo deserves full credit for bringing immigration to the fore. Take a look at the public's support for AZ or the Dems and Rinos who are now backtracking on immigration issues. McCain had the chutzpah to say he never supported amnesty in his latest campaign. Congress just passed another border security bill similar to what they did in 2006 with the Secure Fence Act dusring the runup to the midterms. The are a large number of bills at the state level cracking down on illegal immigration. Poll after poll shows the public on the side of Tancredo when it comes to immigration issues.
And before you call me names - prove me wrong and win an election.
NumbersUSA 2008 End-of-Congress Grade-A Senators for Sensible Immigration
NumbersUSA 2008 End-of-Congress Top Ten in the House
Toughness on immigration did not cost candidates their election
Tom Tancredo = losertarian wanna be
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