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CO-07: Poll: O'Donnell Trailing By 17 Points Despite Groveling Social Security Apology
Remember that groveling flyer that GOP House candidate Rick O'Donnell sent out to voters begging forgiveness for having once written that we should "eliminate Social Security"? It doesn't appear to be doing him much good. A new SurveyUSA poll shows that Dem Ed Perlmutter has vaulted to a 17 point lead over O'Donnell -- 54%-37%. A SurveyUSA poll had them tied at 45% last month. In this poll, while only 4% of Dems favor O'Donnell, Perlmutter enjoys the support of 14% of Republicans. No breakdown on the elderly vote, unfortunately.
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This is wonderful news. CO-07 was formed in Colorado's off-census redictricting, to be a swing district for Republicans. Looks like their calculations weren't so good.
Of course, a bad candidate doesn't help.
September 26, 2006 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
While this is indeed good news that Perlmutter is up on O'Donnell, just to clarify, the 7th CD in Colorado was a creation of the court, which was forced to intervene to resolve a deadlock (if my memory serves me). The 7th CD was created with a neutral tilt, meaning that it has roughly the same number of Democrats as Republicans, with a large chunk of independents. In the first year there was an election for the 7th CD, Bob Beauprez (who ran - again, if I recall correctly - as a more moderate Republican) edged out Mike Feeley by a ridiculously small number of votes - less than 200.
The Republicans did try to do an off-census gerrymander to the state, but the state Courts overturned it as inconsistent with the law/Constitution.
September 26, 2006 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink