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.
How many of those 18% for Tancredo would have voted for Maes if Tancredo wasn’t running? Turnout is the key not these percentages.
“So, you can see the future too? How do the food riots look to you?”
Well I can see Tancredo slipping even further into political obscurity so that’s a good thing....
Tancredo is running on the ticket of a different party...an actual conservative party.
The idiots are those rino’s who won’t reach out to them.
This is what the betrayal by rinos has cost.
I will not vote for rinos or any other variety of liberal.
A hell of a lot more than would vote for Hickenlooper. You can’t truly believe that Tancredo’s voters would switch to Hickenlooper if Tancredo wasn’t in it, do you?
Perhaps you can explain why you always lose, then.
From 1986 to yesterday, the course of immigration policy has been worse and worse. What the booboisie demands, it gets. Just look at low taxes and high public spending as two examples.
So, if the public is on your side on this question, you really need a better explanation of reality.
Not to nitpik but Tancredo represented one of the most conservative districts in CO. That’s why he won over and over and why he has backing today.
Tancredo, right or wrong, has alienated the Hispanic vote to the extent that you can eliminate any support coming from that special interest group. Unless there are more overwhelming negatives for Maes, Tancredo will simply split the vote. If more comes out, Republicans in CO are going to have difficult time electing Maes for anything.
Hickenlooper, the Mayor who made sure his city was a sanctuary city.
His restaurant hired an illegal with a criminal record who shot and killed a police officer hired to protect a baby Christening party at a restaurant in Denver.
The killer escaped to Mexico, it took years to get him back and Colorado had to agree not to have the death penalty in the case.
Thank you Hickenlooper.
Colorado has never had a Denver mayor elected as governor. This may be a first.
They were both conservative Democrats. But Alas there are no longer any conservative Democrats. The conservatives are leaving the Republican Party as well. The McNichols brothers Steven and William: Governor and Mayor.
My response was misdirected at you. It is not your post but the one you were responding to that triggered my rant. Sorry.
“We stand a better chance of forcing RINO officials to bend to our conservative wishes than we will a Democrat.”
I agree. It does matter, however, just how RINO the RINO is. If they are left leaning they can cripple a Republican majority and make it look like the Republicans failed.
If Tancredo was so concerned he should have run in the Republican primary. Waiting, and then running as a fringe party candidate is being a spoiler.
He is no better than Crist in that regard. The only realistic vehicle for Conservatives to be elected is by winning the Republican nomination for an office.
Third party runs, more often than not, are spoilers that get the Democrat elected. The only exception is New York, because of the unique laws where multiple parties can support a single candidate.
I spent four days each in Florida and South Carolina driving over 2000 miles following the McCain campaign during the 2008 primaries demonstrating against his amnesty position. I believe amnesty will destroy this country with the stroke of a pen.
When McCain got the nomination, I decided to hold my nose and vote for the lesser to two evils. I contributed many hours on phone backs calling up Rep voters to vote for McCain. I spent hours at the polls handing out campaign literature on election day as well as during early voting.
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'???)
After the McCain episode, I vowed never to compromise my principles again. The only way conservatives are going to get back the Rep party is to demonstrate to the RINO establishment that they can not win elections without us.
UNLESS TOM TANCREDO DROPS OUT HE IS GUARANTEEING THAT JOHN HICKENLOOPER WILL BE THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF COLORADO.
Hell Tancredo might as well put on a Hickenlooper bumper sticker.
Maes isn’t going to win with 31% of the vote. You are making the false assumption that the Tancredo votes would go to Maes. Let Maes drop out and using your logic, Tancredo would win.
Yes by all means get Conservatives into the general election, but don't saddle us with Marxists....that is just wrong.
I like Tancredo’s stand against illegals but he is really making a big mistatke this time. I am also surprise his numbers are so low.
When you are offered an echo, not a choice, like we were in 2008, then it doesn’t work. McCain became the presumptive nominee of the party in 2008 with just 31% of the primary vote. That means that 69% of the party preferred someone else.
you are right about Tancredo..Republicans did have 8 years..he got screwed around by Bush and McCain.
Thank God we’re talking about a governors race and not a house or senate race.
you are right about Tancredo..Republicans did have 8 years..he got screwed around by Bush and McCain.
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