McInnis Holds Small Lead Over Hickenlooper
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 21st, 2010 4:41 am by HL
McInnis Holds Small Lead Over Hickenlooper
A new Denver Post poll in Colorado finds Scott McInnis (R) edging John Hicklenlooper (D) in the race for governor, 47% to 43%.
GOP Enthusiasm Tops Previous Years
A new Gallup poll finds that 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are more enthusiastic than usual about voting this year compared with past elections — the highest found in a midterm election year for either party since 1994.
Key finding: “Republicans’ net score of +14 more enthusiastic in the latest poll compared with the Democrats’ net score of -21 represents the largest relative party advantage Gallup has measured in a single midterm election-year poll.”
Five Races Key to Republican Success in 2012
“The roots of a Republican political renaissance in 2012 lie in the Rust Belt,” the Washington Post reports. “That swath of manufacturing- based states in the Midwest” — Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — “with tentacles that reach as far east as Pennsylvania, has been the epicenter of the economic difficulties in the country over the past few years.”
“Each state is hosting a competitive gubernatorial race this fall. Republicans argue that a clean sweep (or close to it) would immediately change the electoral calculus heading into the nationwide redistricting in 2011 and President Obama’s reelection race in 2012.”
