Tag: Polling

The Colorado General Assembly begins its 2009 legislative session today on a historical note. Democrats Senate President Peter Groff and Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll are the nation's first African Americans to lead tandem chambers of a state legislature during the same session. With President-elect Barack Obama winning 95 percent of the black vote on Nov. 4 what are the Republican Party's prospects of wooing African American candidates, activists and voters to the highest echelons of the GOP. Add your thoughts in the comments below the fold.

Presiding over two eras reminiscent of the current economic meltdown, the father of the 1930s New Deal triumphs over the patriarch of the 1980s "government is the problem," according to a new Rasmussen poll.

Two of the leading contenders to fill Ken Salazar's Senate seat perform better against potential Republican opponents than Salazar himself, according to a poll released Friday. "Could Ken Salazar's move from the Senate to Interior Secretary actually be a good thing for Colorado Democrats?" Public Policy Polling's Tom Jenson asks, pointing to results that show Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Salazar's older brother John, who represents the 3rd Congressional District, scoring higher than the sitting senator in hypothetical match-ups with potential GOP candidates in the 2010 election.

Fewer than one in four Americans trusts Republicans more than Democrats to deal with serious national problems, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Thursday. The 23 percent confidence level for the GOP is the lowest rating for either party in at least 26 years, the Post reports.

Public Policy Polling adds more grist to the mill with a survey of Coloradans preferences among the potential candidates to succeed U.S. Senator Ken Salazar who was tapped to become secretary of the Interior by President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday.

Click the image to take the quiz then check your answers against the Pew News IQ survey below the fold. No peeking!

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu is Pres.-elect Barack Obama's surprise pick as Energy Secretary. Is this out of the box thinking a good omen for energy-rich Colorado? Add your thoughts in the comments below the fold.

Colorado Republicans have only a 15 percent chance of winning the Senate seat held by Democrat Ken Salazar, according to an analysis by polling analyst extraordinaire Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight Web site. Weighing approval ratings and the state's political climate, Silver pegs Colorado as the 12th most likely seat to switch parties in the 2010 Senate elections, but after a handful of hotly contested races at the top, turnover chances drop like a stone. Overall, Silver predicts Democrats should pick up between one and three seats out of 37 contested races in the next election.

So what's democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar going to do with the $400,000 he reportedly pocketed at his first fund raising event of the 2010 re-election campaign to add to the $1.8 million bucks already in the bank? Buy some voter love if a tepid new DailyKos/Research 2000 poll matchup against ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo and Jon Elway is any indicator. The survey shows Salazar up by double digits in both cases but still hovering dangerously close to the magic 50 percent of 'aye' votes for an incumbent.

Despite sweeping electoral victories and dramatic shifts in party registration, Colorado hasn't really shifted allegiance to the ruling Democrats, pollster Floyd Ciruli told a gathering of the state's county commissioners Wednesday. "People are saying, 'Go ahead, we'll give you a year or two.' And then they might pull the franchise if it doesn't work out," Ciruli told a gathering of Colorado Counties, Inc., according to Politics West's John Ingold.