CO-Quinnipiac: Carson leads, Rubio strong, Trump only 3rd, Clinton up 2-1 too

[Mr. Morden]

Dems

Clinton 55%
Sanders 27%
O’Malley 2%

GOP

Carson 25%
Rubio 19%
Trump 17%
Cruz 14%
Fiorina 5%
Paul 3%
Bush 2%
Christie 1%
Huckabee 1%
Jindal 1%
Kasich 1%
Gilmore, Graham, Pataki, Santorum 0%

[Mr. Morden]

Of course, since Colorado isn't even going to conduct a straw poll at their GOP caucuses, it doesn't really matter who's "winning" among rank and file GOP voters.  What matters (to the extent that anything matters this far in advance) is who is winning among party activists, not ordinary voters.

And even that doesn't really matter, unless there's some kind of deadlocked convention scenario.  If it's a normal year, and we have a de facto nominee by the time the primaries are over, then the Colorado delegates will presumably back that de facto nominee.

But if you want to try to read something into this poll beyond its non-existent impact on Colorado's delegates, I guess it would be that the supposed "Carson implosion" that some are trying to read into the polls still looks like an artifact of all the internet polls we've been seeing recently.  In live interview polls like this one, Carson still does fine.