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Poll: Colorado voters don’t like Trump, Democrats lead Tancredo in gubernatorial match-ups

Dec 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

All four of the leading Democratic gubernatorial candidates are leading Republican Tom Tancredo at the same time President Donald Trump’s approval rating is in the dumps with Colorado voters, according to a new poll from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling. The survey, released Monday from the North Carolina-based polling firm, finds unaffiliated voters in Colorado – a…
Keating poll shows Democrat Cary Kennedy leading Republican Tom Tancredo in Colorado governor’s race

Nov 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A new statewide poll of likely Colorado voters shows Democrat Cary Kennedy ahead of Republican Tom Tancredo by 16 points in a general election match-up between the leading gubernatorial candidates. According to the survey, conducted over the past week by Colorado-based Democratic polling firm Keating Research and obtained exclusively by Colorado Politics, Kennedy, a former…
Centrist Project hopes to break statehouse gridlock by electing independent candidates

Nov 6, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Despite the fact that more Colorado voters are unaffiliated than belong to any one political party, the state has never elected an independent candidate to the Legislature – a 140-year streak a young organization called the Centrist Project aims to break in next year’s election. “Independents are a force to be reckoned with, but they’re…
Republican Tom Tancredo set to launch campaign for governor of Colorado

Oct 31, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Tom Tancredo is set to kick off a campaign for governor of Colorado, joining a crowded Republican primary field in what will be his third run for the office, Colorado Politics has learned. Tancredo enters the race – after more than two months spent exploring a run – on the heels of a private poll…
Poll conducted by former Trump data aide shows Tom Tancredo atop Colorado GOP gubernatorial field

Oct 25, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Although he hasn’t launched a campaign yet, Tom Tancredo holds a wide lead in Colorado’s crowded Republican gubernatorial primary field and is in a statistical tie with leading Democratic candidate Jared Polis, according to a survey conducted by the pollster who set up the polling and data operations for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The poll…
CIRULI: Fake polls — just a Trump put-down or a real problem?

Oct 3, 2017

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Floyd Ciruli

At a recent press conference, Sarah Huckabee Sanders brushed back a question from a CNN reporter about a Fox News poll that showed 56 percent of the American people saw President Trump as “tearing the county apart.” She used Trump’s favorite put-downs: “A lot of those same polls told you Donald Trump would never be…
Political veteran Dick Wadhams outlines ‘redprint’ for Republican victory in Colorado elections

Apr 6, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Dick Wadhams, who chaired the state Republican Party for two terms and had a hand in electing the statewide officials who set the tone for the Colorado GOP across three decades, has a message for the party: Republicans have never had it easy in Colorado. “This has always been a competitive state; this has never…
Colorado College poll: Mountain West voters oppose public lands transfer

Feb 1, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Voters in the Mountain West like their public lands, and they don’t want them sold off or transferred to states, according to a comprehensive poll released Tuesday. By more than three-to-one, voters across seven states said they prefer that the Trump administration protects water, air quality, wildlife and access for recreation on public lands rather…
Beauprez: Shared principles can help GOP ‘right the ship’

Nov 10, 2016

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Ernest Luning

In the weeks leading up to the November election – before Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rallied in the polls, throwing what had looked like an easy win for Democrat Hillary Clinton up in the air and turning it into a historic Trump victory – there was nearly as much chatter about the impending civil…
Most Colorado voters cast ballots early

Nov 8, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

More than 2.2 million of Colorado’s nearly 3.3 million registered voters had turned in their mail-in ballots by Election Day, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, with Republican voters slightly ahead of Democratic voters. The early Election Day tally showed Republican voters cast 771,745 ballots, Democratic voters cast 753,052 ballots and unaffiliated, or independent,…