CO: Public Policy Polling: Romanoff beats Norton by 5, Bennet just ties her

[Vepres]

Still better than Bennet has been doing. Bennet has been a pretty great Senator, so I'm kind of conflicted about the primary here.

He's terrible for this state, though. I expect him to lose handily if he wins the primary. Only Romanoff can make this a race IMO.

By the way, while approval polls have largely remained static, it is interesting to note that Democrats' numbers seem to have been improving this past week or so.

[Vepres]

We are starting to see the Democratic Summer bump. It happens every election cycle.

Of course. The rich Republicans have decamped to their summer spas, and when the phone rings at their official residence with the pollster drone at the other end of the line, one of their caretakers answer the phone, and pretend to be the actual owner of the place, and of course gives Dem oriented responses, because they are illegal aliens. The pollster drone at the other end of the line, doesn't realize that something might be amiss because of the minimal mastery of English from the responder. I hope that helps explain it all.

Democrats were cursed by an 80 year-old Indian witchdoctor, thus their bump will always come months before the actual election.

[Vepres]

Alot of these GOP challengers are from the previous Bush administration Thompson, Norton, Portman.  Alot of people did have real concerns about Obama moving in a more liberal direction from the previous administration.  But now, I don't think the public wanted to go back either.

It will be interesting to see how well third parties and independents do this year.