This is a poll of the Denver mayoral runoff race between former Colorado Sen. Chris Romer and Denver City Councilman Michael Hancock, released by Colorado Pols and conducted by Denver-based RBI Strategies & Research. The result of this poll shows a small, well within the margin-of-error lead for Hancock, with 41%, followed by Romer with 37%.
Here’s a detailed summary from RBI research director Kevin Ingham:
RBI Survey Shows Close Race with Hancock Leading Romer by 4 Points
A new survey of likely 2011 municipal runoff voters in Denver shows a close race for the next mayor of Denver. Just one week after Romer taking the top spot in the first round, Hancock now leads the race for the runoff by a 41% to 37% margin.
In the weeks since RBI’s last survey of the mayoral race, Hancock’s name ID has seen a large boost with only 26% identifying an opinion of him in March and 74% able to identify him now. Further, Hancock’s favorable name ID now out paces Romer’s with 64% saying they have a favorable opinion and 10% having an unfavorable opinion. For Romer’s part, he has also experienced a boost in name ID with 51% identifying him in March and 79% able to identify him now. However, negative opinion of Romer outpaces Hancock with 53% having a favorable opinion and 26% having an unfavorable opinion.
Hancock’s narrow lead is based upon a lead among Democrats, progressives, African Americans and North East Denver voters. Romer leads among Republicans, men and conservatives. Undecided voters are disproportionately Mejia voters, Central Denver voters, and those skipped the first round election but plan to vote in the runoff.
RBI Strategies & Research conducted a telephone survey of 400 Denver voters who indicated it was likely that they would vote in the June 2011 Municipal Election. Interviews were conducted May 9 – 11, 2011 by Standage Market Research of Denver, Colorado, a market research firm specializing in telephone survey interviewing. Respondents were randomly selected from a list of Colorado voters, purchased from Voter Contact Services, who registered after the 2010 General Election or voted in the 2010 General Election and either 1) voted in at least one off-year election dating back to 2003 or 2) registered after 2009 off-year election.
Today, as a favor to our friends at RBI, we’re releasing the details exclusively via RBI Strategies’ Facebook page. Please click through to get the full toplines and crosstabs for the poll–don’t worry, you can still access the results even if you’re one of the few people online anymore who doesn’t have a Facebook account. But don’t forget to give RBI a ‘Like’ if you do!
Mr. Ingham will join Colorado Pols readers at 1PM today for a Q&A session on the results of this poll.
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So given the numbers, it would appear that Mejia’s supporters who were going to Hancock, have gone. Now those that remain undecided will elect Denver’s next mayor.
Perhaps this oversimplifies things, but the key question becomes if Mejia can look his undecided supporters in the eye and convince them with a straight face that Romer is the best choice for Denver.
HOW he does that becomes a function of time, money and the ability of Romer’s camp to create a strategy that accomplishes the task.
My bet is Chrissy won’t be able to handle the shot to his outsized ego and they’ll continue down that path of negatives, which I don’t think are going to get it done.