New CO Senate Polling -

oh dear......

   The Sphinx Strategy is not paying off.  Or maybe this was the reaction of viewers to the TV commercial linking Udall with Fidel Castro.
  Maybe the "Thanks, Bob" commercials will help lift Shifty's numbers out of the toilet.

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by: One Queer Dude @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 15:02:29 PM CDT

I've been thinking

I think the liberal label has finally lost its power.  Labeling Udall a liberal seems to be the only strategy of the Shafer campaign.

Attaching the label to every politician to the left of Atila the Hun for the last 30 years has diminished the words power even when attached to an actual liberal.

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by: Danny the Red (hair) @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 15:17:29 PM CDT

BOULDER liberal

You omitted half of the slur!

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by: One Queer Dude @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 16:15:05 PM CDT

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Funny

That's the only poll I've seen with that much of a spread...what else do we know about the firm other then that?

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by: Haners @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 16:08:00 PM CDT

Here is who paid for the poll.

from Roll Call

In releasing polling Tuesday that sought to bolster its argument that Americans oppose "card-check" legislation for unionized workers, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace also released polls on three of the most hotly contested Senate races of the cycle.

In Colorado, the Republican polling firm McLaughlin & Associates found Rep. Mark Udall (D) leading former Rep. Bob Schaffer (R), 44 percent to 32 percent. The survey of 400 likely general election voters taken March 6-9 had a 4.9-point margin of error.

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by: GOPpundit @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 16:19:47 PM CDT

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Clearly this was

not a left-leaning Dem group trying to spin.

you have to give these numbers some credence.

Frankly, I am not surprised.

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by: Roger D @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 16:45:47 PM CDT

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who?

Per Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic

McLaughlin conducted the survey for the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, a corporate group opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act, a major priority for labor unions.

Wonky side note: McLaughlin, who worked for Sen. Fred Thompson's presidential campaign, is teaming with ex-Thompson communicatons director Todd Harris on the Coalition's behalf.

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by: Steve Balboni @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 17:09:51 PM CDT

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Sounds...

Sounds like a good operation...

Or something

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by: Haners @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 19:48:21 PM CDT

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I want to know who this MOE guy is that has 4,9% of the vote :)

Some men see things as they are, and ask why! ...I dream things that could be and ask,  Why Not !

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by: NEWSMAN @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 18:08:33 PM CDT

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Larry and Curly's brother

When I use lots of words, they always form an analysis (and, while producing high volume, also produce high information-density).
--Steve Harvey, 2009

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by: Ralphie @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 19:32:39 PM CDT

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Also from the original story...

The poll found in all three states that non-union households were far more likely to support the Republican candidates, and also suggested that voters are less likely to support candidates who favor a card-check process for union membership, a provision favored by unions and many Democratic leaders.

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by: GOPpundit @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 16:26:52 PM CDT

And water's wet

News flash: Republicans hate unions. Film at 11.

Non impediti ratione cogitationis.

"Some of the people that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'." --Rep. Barney Frank

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by: ThillyWabbit @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 01:24:20 AM CDT

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Ambinder had this yesterday

Definitely take a look at the other numbers,
http://steampoweredopinions.bl...

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by: Steve Balboni @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 16:31:53 PM CDT

:-)

When  do I get to be on the to be voted on list for Polster of the week... Sigh no love for me. ha ha

Bob is sooo done in CO, I heard Udall is going to post a BIG fundraising quarter this one.  

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by: Coloradobaywatch @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 17:29:18 PM CDT

The Margin of error is pretty high

I'd be more comfortable with the poll if the MOE was a bit lower.

Still, not good news for the Schaffer camp after Rasmussen's repeatedly rosy polling.

"I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages-the less you know about the process the more you respect the result."  -- Anonymous IL State Rep. circa 1878

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 18:15:01 PM CDT

Small sample I'm sure

And those numbers are so far out of whack it ain't even funny. Udall is likely ahead, he's a sitting Congressman with the commensurate name ID. But no way is the margin like that. That's a poll whose results should be thrown out like stale coffee.

Non impediti ratione cogitationis.

"Some of the people that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'." --Rep. Barney Frank

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by: ThillyWabbit @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 01:31:23 AM CDT

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I worry that Moderate Mark may be too conservative for Colorado

What if Bob runs to his left?

Tea party support in the primary.

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by: DavidThi808 @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 20:49:03 PM CDT

LOL n/t

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by: Roger D @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 06:17:26 AM CDT

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