UPDATE: New Rasmussen poll also has Udall up by six points.
As the Rocky Mountain News reports:
Soccer moms, Western Slope residents and younger voters hold the key to Mark Udall’s ability to win Colorado’s U.S. Senate race, according to a Rocky/CBS 4 News poll released today.
The Democratic congressman from Eldorado Springs holds a six-point lead over Republican Bob Schaffer, getting 44 percent of respondents’ support, as compared with 38 percent for the former congressman from Fort Collins. Independent candidate Buddy Moore garnered 5 percent of the vote, Green Party nominee Bob Kinsey took 2 percent and the rest of the respondents were undecided or refused to answer.
Udall’s lead comes largely from a 14-point advantage among women and a 15-point boost among the traditionally swing group of suburban women. Schaffer leads by three points – 42 percent to 39 percent – among men.
The Democrat also holds a large edge among younger voters, 47 percent to 29 percent. And he is tied with Schaffer on the Western Slope, a formerly Republican area that has begun to swing Democratic in recent elections…
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Yawn……Anyone else see a pattern developing here?
Who let this happen ? What is that reporters name ? Goddamit, I’ll have his ass !
More importantly, what do you plan to shove up there?
…Dick Whadams owes us an explanation.
hire a campaign communications director? Can anyone recall a time that either the candidate or the communications director was actually quoted in the press instead of Dick Wadhams? The man’s ego must be the size of a mountain… a mountain like Denali!
from the Denver Post
Boy, Mark Udall seems determined to honk off every part of his base in his race for the middle. This is going to upset a lot of environmentalists, which is the core of his base.
What’s funny is I find this compromise reasonable. I’m not thrilled with every bit of it but I do think something like this does need to be done. But leave it to Mark to sound totally lame with his rationalization:
or do you think Udall’s popularity will gradually decrease when more people learn of his support for efca? I mean it’s rarely talked about, but I know his name is on the ballot.
Employee Free Choice Act. This election is about energy, the economy, health care, the environment and the war.
Several Chambers of Commerce in this election, including Metro Denver’s are siding with labor on the most closely related issues on the Colorado ballot. Sure, they don’t love unions, but union busting isn’t important to them, because Colorado has so few strong private sector unions.
Nobody but union members themselves (who are already safely pro-Udall), Wal-Mart executives, and a certain metro Denver daily newspaper publisher are worked up over labor-management issues at the moment.
Private sector workers are too worried about their companies going bankrupt to fight very hard at the negotiating table.
This close to the election, is shocking. Dick Whadams should be fired by Schaffer. Now. But only if he wants to make up the ground. Honestly, I would be haappy if he continued to massacre his candidacy, but if he wants to win, that is the only way.
Robert Becker to get the campaign back on track. You’re right, it’s probably his only chance.
The Crown Jewel, of course, could always fire Schaffer and run Scott McInnis.
…are silly, and don’t really understand politics. In any other campaign, the campaign manager would have been fired long ago. Schaffer can’t fire his campaign manager?? How does he expect to be a Senator if he can’t even let go of dead weight on his staff.
If Wadhams can’t manage a campaign how can anyone think he’ll be a good party chairman? The GOP, however much I disagree with them on the issues, can and does deserve someone better than Dick Wadhams. He is steering your little rectangular-shaped elephant state off of a cliff.
I don’t remember any.
Also, it sounds like it is time to put Buddy Moore and Bob Kinsey on the big line just for shits and grins. While neither will win, either could be a king maker by hurting their friends.
The notion of “the Western Slope” as “a formerly Republican area” also seems pretty implausible to me.
Zogby, of course, was the only pollster in ’06 to put Both Ways anywhere close to Bill Ritter, and we saw how that turned out…
it was a single outlier, and not a big lead.