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TRAIL MIX | Neck and neck near the back of the pack
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They’re both business-friendly Democrats whose Colorado-based brands are built around bemoaning partisan bickering, but their styles couldn’t be more different. Where Gov. John Hickenlooper’s middle name might as well be “quirky,” U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is anything but. Hickenlooper, 66, a one-time geologist who helped spark Colorado’s brewpub revolution, speaks in a rushed jumble, like…
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Poll shows race for Colo. governor tightening, but Democrat Polis retains ‘inside track’
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A new poll shows Democrat Jared Polis with a 5 percentage point lead over Republican Walker Stapleton as the race for Colorado’s next governor enters its final week. The telephone survey of 500 registered voters by Republican firm Magellan Strategies found Polis with the support of 45 percent of voters to 40 percent for Stapleton.…
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Poll: Polis maintains lead over Stapleton in Colorado governor’s race
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Jared Polis holds a lead of seven percentage points over Walker Stapleton in Colorado’s race for governor, according to pollsters who found the same margin in late September. The poll, by Republican firm Magellan Strategies, shows Democrat Polis leading Republican Stapleton by double digits among women and unaffiliated voters. The poll’s results have Polis ahead…
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Poll finds Polis leading Stapleton by 7 points in Colorado governor’s race
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Democrat Jared Polis holds a 7-point lead over Republican Walker Stapleton in the race to be Colorado’s next governor, according to a new survey of likely voters by a bipartisan team of Colorado-based pollsters. The survey – jointly conducted by Democratic firm Keating Research and Republican firm Magellan Strategies – was commissioned by the nonpartisan…
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TRAIL MIX | Live, from New York, it’s real-time polling of Coffman-Crow race
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Liberal bloggers have taken to calling it “Crowmentum,” and national election forecasters appear to be acknowledging it’s happening. For the first time in the suburban 6th Congressional District’s history, a publicly released independent poll found U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s Democratic challenger – this time around, Jason Crow – running ahead of the five-term Republican incumbent…
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TRAIL MIX | Positive polls like Jason Crow’s are often shrouded in mystery
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Jason Crow’s campaign is touting the results of a poll showing the Democrat with a slim lead over five-term Republican Mike Coffman in Colorado’s battleground 6th Congressional District. The survey, commissioned by the Crow campaign, found the first-time candidate had the support of 47 percent of the district’s likely general election voters, edging out Coffman’s…
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Conservative attack dog growls at Polis for mingling with single-payer advocates
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A prominent Colorado conservative stepped up the attack Wednesday on Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis over the five-term congressman’s support for universal health care, saying his appearance at a recent conference demonstrates “how radical he is.” Kelly Maher, executive director of Compass Colorado, beat a familiar drumbeat in a press release, attempting to tie Polis…
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Poll: Colorado’s unaffiliated voters favor Democrats, strongly dislike Trump
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Unaffiliated voters in Colorado plan to vote in the Democratic primary in sharply higher numbers than in the Republican primary, a poll released Tuesday shows. What’s more, the unaffiliated voters who say they plan to vote in the November election hold significantly more favorable views of the leading Democratic candidates for governor than the leading Republicans.…
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TRAIL MIX: Primary’s zingers and stingers
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The competition for the most outrageous occurrence on the campaign trail has been fierce in recent days, as politicians careen toward the finish line – at 7 p.m. June 26. That’s when Colorado’s primary election campaign turns, in an instant, into its slimmed-down, more expensive and, truth be told, less jocular successor, the general election…
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Denver conference assesses ‘death of polling’
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ANALYSIS The polling industry took a beating after the 2016 election as a stunned political and media class looked for who to blame for the shock they felt upon the election of President Trump. In particular, the “hidden Trump voter” emerged as a key explainer for pundits tackling “what went wrong,” and continues to be…
