Colorado Poll: Dem Salazar leads Repub Coors by 11 Points

[mobuto]

The icing on the cake is that this is the result of a poll commissioned by none other than Pete Coors himself. Coors chose to release these results - he thinks it makes him look good. So what are the real polls saying?

U.S. SENATE: Open
The Tarrance Group for Pete Coors (R). April 27-29, 2004. N=500 likely voters statewide. MoE ± 4.5:

Republican Primary Trial Heat (among Republican voters):
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Pete Coors 50
Bob Schaffer 32
Unsure 18


General Election Trial Heat (among all likely voters):
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Ken Salazar (D) 52
Pete Coors (R) 41
Unsure 7

http://www.pollingreport.com/sub/co2004.htm#SENATE
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[dsc]

1. He has a point

He is someone who has never held public office and is likely unkown to vast numbers of Coloradans. He is losing by only 11 to a statewide elected official. That isn't bad. Given his fortune he well could make up that deficit in short order. I would be crowing about that poll too.

[NewJerseyDem]

3. It is a republican poll

Most partisan polls are a little off in favor of their candidates. So, that 11 point lead should actually be a little a larger. This race isn't guarenteed but Salazar should be favored. Also, this is a republican-leaning state so usually the republican will lead in the polls at the beginning just because he has an (R) next to his name. But, here Salazar has been able to show that he is clearly picking up some voters that usually vote for republicans.

[mobuto]

5. Well, the details are slightly different

I'd be very surprised if this poll were actually manipulated by Coors. I think these are real results from a real poll. But the fact that it orginates from a candidate indicates that its self selected. Coors could have run a great many polls, but he's only decided to release one. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess why - because it shows him doing a lot better than the others do.

[SaveElmer]

6. Unknown?

People may not know exactly where he stands on things, and I expect as people learn what a neanderthal he is they will turn dem, but the Coors name is huge in Colorado...I don't think name recognition is his problem.

[dsc]

10. He isn't the only Coors

Unless he is a particularly flamboyant Coors I can't see how he is well known for simply having that name.

[Arugula Latte]

11. Isn't he the guy in the beer commercials?

That's the same Coors that was in the goddamn ads, right? Even I know who that prick is.

Bleah. That family makes piss-poor beer and its politics is even more piss-poor.

[paulk]

2. we've got a real shot at taking this seat back

from that fork tongued fuck, Ben "Nightsoil" Campbell.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. More importantly, what does this poll say about our chances of

taking CO in the presidential election?

[jburton]

7. This is SWEET!

Colorado, come back home to Blue!

[Stirling Newberry]

8. The Backbone of America

The Rockie Mountains are the spine of the American continent, and the source of much of America's strength - in ranching, mining and forestry. For a long time, the Republicans have won on the message of "resource raping". Take it all now, and let the next generation take care of itself. The change that is coming is that we are the next generation that is going to have to fend for itself.

This idea, that the century of restoration is upon us, is, like Muir's idea of the wilderness, a powerful current whose time has come.

[ButterflyBlood]

9. COORS IS GOING DOWN!

Hey Coors, fuck off, you're a fascist and your beer sucks too! :toast:

[Lexingtonian]

12. it's good for both

It's good for Coors because it shows that he has the whole Republican base behind him already.

It's good for Salazar because it's the first (published) poll that shows him supported by over 50%. That'll decrease as swing voters get more informed about Coors, but it says that basically all Democratic and swing voters are OK with having him potentially in that office.