A new poll released Thursday gives Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) his biggest edge to date in his bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO).
The Quinnipiac poll (.pdf) shows Gardner up eight points over Udall, 48 percent to 40 percent, among likely voters.
It is by far the biggest lead that Gardner has seen in any poll. A Suffolk University poll released Wednesday of likely voters gave Gardner a narrow edge, 43 percent to 42 percent. A SurveyUSA poll of likely voters released last week put Udall up, 46 percent to 42 percent.
The most recent Quinnipiac poll in Colorado before this one was conducted in July among registered voters, not likely voters. It showed Gardner up 44 percent to 42 percent. The new Quinnipiac poll, conducted Sept. 10-15, surveyed 1,211 likely voters. Its margin of error is 2.8 percentage points.
TPM’s PollTracker average now shows Gardner up 44.7 percent to 41.3 percent over Udall.
I don’t live in Colorado. Can someone with more information than is in this article explain what is going on?
Can’t believe how stupid people are.
Spare me! Quinnipac is the same pollster that gave Joni Ernst a big lead when she’s been showing she’s not yet ready for prime time. So I doubt this is true
Gardner isn’t crowing about any internal polling that indicates the same thing. There’s probably a good reason for that.
Q has to be included because it is non-partisan, but their best results are when they poll in the Northeast where they’re from.