We meant to hit this last week. In a Colorado poll by the Democrat firm Public Policy Polling (PPP), Senator Mark Udall is not doing well, with a lowly 40% approval rating. It appears Washington, DC's taint has splashed back on the formerly beloved Udall.
That is especially troubling for Udall considering how much the poll oversamples liberals and Democrats.
Peak news contributor Dave Diepenbrock recently pointed out that the PPP poll oversampled liberals by 12.5% and undersampled moderates by 6.5% and conservatives by 4%.
When Diepenbrock recalculated the PPP results for President based on the correct ideological sample, using Gallup's numbers, President Obama's supposed 13-point lead over Romney turned into a one-point Romney lead. Imagine what Udall's approval rating might look like if the approval rating was calculated based on a proper ideological sample of Colorado's electorate.
With Udall's re-elect only two and a half years away, will the DC-stink get worse? We don't suppose he'll end up smelling like outsider roses come 2014.
If a poll designed to make Democrats look good has Udall this low, we wonder how much panic is going on in Udall's world right now.
It will be interesting to see who will run against him on the GOP side in 2014. I wonder if the CO GOP can keep its act together long enough to put up a viable candidate. Former State Senate Minority Leader, Mike Kopp, would beat Udall….
Udall is pretending to to be a moderate with votes to please gun rights voters. He has voted in the past to support a nationwide concealed carry law (knowing it was doomed to a Democrat filibuster). Now he’s pushing establishment of public gun ranges on federal lands (knowing it will never get scheduled in Barbara Boxer’s senate committee).
If he really supported these things, he’d attach them as floor amendments to bills he’s sponsored – thereby ensuring an up or down vote that several of his leftist colleagues would rather avoid.
The fact is that Udall, Bennett and the rest of the Democratic cabal that run the dysfunctional senate haven’t passed a budget as required by law in over three years. He is part of the problem in Washington. It’s time to replace him with part of the solution.
would be to see Bennet’s poll numbers. Udall at least has an aura of respectability. Bennet is a walking joke. He’s lived in the state 13 years, he was appointed in a back room deal, a lot of Dems hate him, and he sounds like Stoner Bud from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
More interestingly would be to have IQ tests given to the entire Senate and see where Bennet ranks.
With the first two words in that title you really don’t need the last three. It’s evident to anyone paying attention.