CO-Project New West: Romney leads in month-old poll

[Tender Branson]

24% Romney
20% Perry
  7% Bachmann
  7% Gingrich
  5% Cain

PNW's poll showed that 49% of likely Colorado voters view the President in a positive light, compared with 45% who have a negative opinion of him. Comparatively, Mitt Romney has a 40/38 favorable/unfavorable rating, and Rick Perry is underwater with a 29/38 rating.
Importantly, the President is even more popular with unaffiliated voters, who constitute a crucial 29% of the Colorado electorate.

54 percent of unaffiliated voters have positive feelings about the president, compared with 37% who view him negatively. Romney (38/37) and Perry (24/33) have similar ratings among Unaffiliateds as they do with the broader electorate.

The President also remains popular with Hispanic voters, who made up roughly 12% of the Colorado electorate in 2010.

Obama has a 59/36 approval/disapproval rating among Colorado Hispanics, compared to 31/35 for Romney and 28/39 for Perry.

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PNW conducted 500 live operator telephone interviews from September 19-22, 2011 among likely November 2012 voters statewide in Colorado. The margin of error for this survey is +/- 4.3%. The margin of error among only Republican voters is +/- 7.2%.

http://www.coloradopols.com/upload/PNW%20CO%20Poll%20Memo-Oct.%2025.pdf

Of course useless now with Cain surging.

[M]

Why... would anyone release a poll a month later?

Totally meaningless.