CO-Quinnipiac: Gov. Hickenlooper (D) continues to be in trouble

[Tender Branson]

46% Hickenlooper
45% Tancredo

47% Hickenlooper
42% Gessler

47% Hickenlooper
40% Brophy

Do you approve or disapprove of the way John Hickenlooper is handling his job as Governor?

48-44 approve

Do you feel that John Hickenlooper deserves to be reelected, or do you feel that he does not deserve to be reelected?

45-48 does not

Is your opinion of John Hickenlooper favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him?

49-42 favorable

Is your opinion of Tom Tancredo favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him?

34-30 favorable

Is your opinion of Scott Gessler favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him?

16-15 favorable

Is your opinion of Greg Brophy favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him?

10-4 favorable

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as President?

41-56 disapprove

From August 15 - 21, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,184 registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/colorado/release-detail?ReleaseID=1942

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

I'm gonna be honest here. I don't believe this poll. After reading Tom Tancredo's and Obama's numbers, they just seem... way off.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

How can Hickenlooper be in trouble with a fairly robust approval rating?

[DrScholl]

I'm very skeptical that Tancredo could even get close, especially after getting just 36% in 2010, which was low, even considering Maes still being in the race.

[Tender Branson]

CO voters could be temporarily pissed about the legislative push by the Democrats in the state (guns, gays, pot etc.) and Hick's death penalty decision not to execute some guy.

But there's still a lot of water running down the Colorado river until election day next year and once Tancredo gets exposed as a right-wing nut in the debates, Hick will be comfortably ahead again by 5-10 points (also because of the Latinos).

[tmthforu94]

I think Hickenlooper is vulnerable - Personally, I'd like to see Brophy get the nomination. I think he's much stronger in a GE than Tancredo.

[krazen1211]

Outlier:

I'm gonna go ahead and call this one an outlier.  Quinnipiac often shows Republicans overperforming (see: CT 2010, 2012), and the demographic shifts of the state are going too be too much for Tancredo and other Republicans to overcome, especially by 2014.

My gut puts this race in Lean D territory.

Skeptical:

Fools gold, but of course Republicans will act like Tancredo is up by 20 or something.

History repeats itself, eh.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Outlier:

I'm gonna go ahead and call this one an outlier.  Quinnipiac often shows Republicans overperforming (see: CT 2010, 2012), and the demographic shifts of the state are going too be too much for Tancredo and other Republicans to overcome, especially by 2014.

My gut puts this race in Lean D territory.

Skeptical:

Fools gold, but of course Republicans will act like Tancredo is up by 20 or something.

History repeats itself, eh.

1. You're quoting something we said about a poll over two months ago.
2. This is yet another Quinnipiac poll, so this doesn't really "confirm" anything.  I would put more stock into these numbers if another pollster came out with similar results.

Of course, you're not actually trying to make a point.  I know that trolling just happens to be your forte, hence why you're one of the most disliked posters here.

[DrScholl]

Outlier:

I'm gonna go ahead and call this one an outlier.  Quinnipiac often shows Republicans overperforming (see: CT 2010, 2012), and the demographic shifts of the state are going too be too much for Tancredo and other Republicans to overcome, especially by 2014.

My gut puts this race in Lean D territory.

Skeptical:

Fools gold, but of course Republicans will act like Tancredo is up by 20 or something.

History repeats itself, eh.

Do you save people's posts just to use them later? You have no valid point here, none whatsoever, you are just trolling.

[free my dawg]

Not worried. He'll come back to earth when Tancredo winds up to be a nutjob. Likely D.

[ElectionsGuy]

Lean D. I would personally like to see Hickenlooper kicked out after signing gun control. Hopefully he realizes that his state isn't New York and he'll be more reasonable for now on, I can see him dipping or improving depending on how he does his job as governor for the next year.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I'm very skeptical that Tancredo could even get close, especially after getting just 36% in 2010, which was low, even considering Maes still being in the race.

You have to remember he was running on a third party line and in 2010 you had a lot of people just checking the box for all the Republicans most likely and therefore Maes ended up over 10%. There was also probably some effort to get him to that level so that the GOP's ballot access would not be jeopardized, which was a very grave concern in 2010 when Tancredo became the defacto GOP candidate.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Considering how popular Hickenlooper was not so long ago, he should never be in this position.  What happened?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

CO and OH are bellwethers.  The Dems need only one of them combined with some smaller states to win in prez yr. I guess we can see neither one is perfectly safe as we see Hillary struggling in CO as well.

[pbrower2a]

In recent years, Colorado Democrats have typically organized GOTV activities that close the election. Democrats have been well organized in Colorado in recent years and I expect much the same in 2014.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Has James Holmes' name been floated by CO Republicans yet?  I think he could be a serious challenger in the general.

[Miles]

Has James Holmes' name been floated by CO Republicans yet?  I think he could be a serious challenger in the general.

Dude, I'm disappointed about the resultslast nite too but that's kinda below the belt.

[krazen1211]

Tancredo, in this after the fact PPP poll, is tied with Hickenlooper in the ~40% Hispanic Pueblo district.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Has James Holmes' name been floated by CO Republicans yet?  I think he could be a serious challenger in the general.

Dude, I'm disappointed about the resultslast nite too but that's kinda below the belt.

Yeah, I know, it probably was.  I guess certain posters have been rubbing off on me.

[PolitiJunkie]

Has James Holmes' name been floated by CO Republicans yet?  I think he could be a serious challenger in the general.

F**k off, that's sick

[Miles]

Haha:

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[ElectionsGuy]

Considering how popular Hickenlooper was not so long ago, he should never be in this position.  What happened?

He got too ideological and passed bills that really upset the independents.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Conservatives and libertarians seem to be really upset that a Democratic governor here actually pushed a democratic agenda and got stuff done. What's the point in being elected in the first place if you're not going to try and change things for the better?

I'd rather be a one-term governor that got a lot of stuff done than a two-term governor who didn't do anything out of fear of upsetting some yellow avatars from across the country.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Conservatives and libertarians seem to be really upset that a Democratic governor here actually pushed a democratic agenda and got stuff done. What's the point in being elected in the first place if you're not going to try and change things for the better?

I'd rather be a one-term governor that got a lot of stuff done than a two-term governor who didn't do anything out of fear of upsetting some yellow avatars from across the country.

Exactly. That's why Nancy Pelosi will be hailed in the future as one of the best House Speakers ever while people like Boehner will be simple footnotes.

[ElectionsGuy]

Conservatives and libertarians seem to be really upset that a Democratic governor here actually pushed a democratic agenda and got stuff done. What's the point in being elected in the first place if you're not going to try and change things for the better?

I'd rather be a one-term governor that got a lot of stuff done than a two-term governor who didn't do anything out of fear of upsetting some yellow avatars from across the country.

The problem with this is that the democrats always complain about republican governors pushing their agenda in the same way. The D's calling them extremists and what not, maybe he's just pushing his agenda too. I don't really care what anybody calls "extreme" or "radical" or the definition that they give, there doing the same thing regardless of what people think. McCrory of North Carolina is a good example lately. So I don't think anyone should complain about complaining on the other side.