U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is “swamping” his Republican challenger Darryl Glenn by 16 points Colorado, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released on Thursday.

Bennet leads Glenn 54-38 percent in the poll of likely Colorado voters, which was conducted Aug. 9-16.

The Democratic incumbent, who is seeking his second full term in the Senate, has led by wide margins in every publicly released poll conducted since Glenn, an El Paso County commissioner, emerged from a crowded GOP primary at the end of June.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was running 10 points ahead of Republican nominee Donald Trump in the Quinnipiac poll of Colorado voters released a day earlier.

Bennet has the support of 96 percent of Democrats, the poll found, while 84 percent of Republicans say they’re supporting Glenn. Bennet wins independents 55-33 percent.

Among the groups identified by Quinnipiac, the two candidates are tied at 47 percent apiece among white men, and Glenn wins white voters without college degrees by 2 points, but the Republican trails in every other demographic.

Bennet holds commanding leads among women, winning 59-33 percent, and younger voters, running ahead by 38 points among voters age 18-34. He’s also burying Glenn among non-white voters, 64-22 percent.

A poll released a week ago painted a similar picture, with Bennet beating Glenn by 15 points, 53-38 percent, in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll of state voters. Bennet had an identical 15-point lead in the Marist poll released a month earlier.

In the three other polls released since early July, Bennet was leading by 6 points in a Harper poll, by 13 points in a Monmouth University poll and by 15 points in a Fox News poll.

Quinnipiac surveyed 830 likely Colorado voters. The poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.4 percent.

– ernest@coloradostatesman.com