Colorado Governor: Hickenlooper (D) 42%; Tancredo (C) 38%; Maes (R) 12%

[Ter]

Wow, how could Tom Tancredo, running on the far-right Constitution Party (they think Bush is a liberal) be so close?

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_governor_elections/colorado/election_2010_colorado_governor

[Nostradammit]

1. Maybe 'cause it's a Rasmussen poll

and their methodology probably sucks.

Or maybe large swaths of Colorado are inhabited by ignorant yahoos.


Could be a little of both.

[Ter]

2. Looks like their version of FL

12% is probably what's left of sane Republicans. Doubt Tan can get more than what he's getting now.

[JI7]

3. people who do things like refer to themselves as constitution party

the moral family group and other shit are usually the furthest from that

[Cosmocat]

4. Like it or not ...

the man WAS in congress for a long time, so he has a record, experience, and in politics, name means a lot ... He is a nut, but in a season where you can't even start to count the lunatics the Rs have put up, he has some actual legitimacy as a candidate ...

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. For the same reason that the sexist prick Ken Buck is beating Mike Bennett in the polls!

Don't know what's going on in Colorado, but something awful is in that water!! :puke::puke:

[saltpoint]

6. I look first at the percentages but then quickly at who

is running the poll, and, seeing that it's who it is, I make the 3-to-4-point Rasmussen adjustment toward the blue candidate, and then consider the current polling to be at least a 7 to 9 point lead for Hickenlooper.

Tancredo likely has his virulent supporters but there are quite a few folks in the Denver-Boulder corridor who can't stomach the thought of him in the Governor's chair. They aren't interested in a racist hack running their state.

I hope Hickenlooper mops the floor with him.

[backscatter712]

7. (R)asmussen poll...

I'll take "House Effect" for a thousand, Alex!

[Arkana]

8. Rasmussen, nuff said.