Fox News Poll--CO--Senate race close--Gov race Dem leads

[WI_DEM]

Colorado Republican Ken Buck is well positioned to unseat incumbent Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet as voters express anger at the federal government and strong disapproval for President Obama’s job performance.

In a new Fox News battleground state poll of likely voters, Buck leads Bennet 47 percent to 43 percent, with 5 percent preferring a minor party candidate and 5 percent undecided. Voters who decide late in elections usually favor challengers over incumbents.

The survey found 56 percent of voters disapproved of Obama’s job performance and 53 percent supported repealing Obama’s national health care program. Forty-one percent classified themselves as angry about the way the federal government works --the angriest state in this week’s battleground surveys.

This wave against the party in power, though, has not been enough to salvage Republican hopes for governor.

Candidate Dan Maes, a Tea Party backed candidate who grabbed the nomination following a plagiarism scandal that sank the hopes of the GOP frontrunner, garnered just 15 percent of the vote in the three way contest with Democrat John Hickenlooper and former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo, running on the American Constitution Party line.

Hickenlooper took 44 percent of the vote and Tancredo garnered 34 percent. Without Tancredo in the race, Maes would still trail Hickenlooper by 14 points. Maes, who has been dogged by financial problems and claims he fabricated parts of his resume.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/28/fox-news-polls-democrats-tough-job-building-senate-firewall/

[otohara]

1. Bennet

In the 18 months he's been senator - I've only heard his voice in TV commercials and once when I attended a meet/greet. Like Angle and O'Donnell, our Sen. Bennet avoids the press, especially the progressive press in this state.

I'm no fan of Bennet and had a thread locked for daring to say so.

So let me go on the record now...I've changed my mind, Bennet is the best damn Senator the state of Colorado has ever had. I love him and can't wait until he wins and continues his support for GOP tax policies.

[curlyred]

4. I will be holding my nose

when I vote for Bennett and thinking about Romanoff.

[Democrats_win]

2. Ken Buck, John Hinkley and the Columbine Killers. No need to thank us.

Ken Buck brings the crackers to the tea party. (Along with misogyny, bigotry and racism.)

[WI_DEM]

3. I love how Fox tries to spin things for the GOP, the bottom line is it's too close to call

and Bennet can win.