Control of the U.S. Senate is coming down to the wire, with Democrats and Republicans locked in tight races in the key contests that will determine the majority in that chamber of Congress, according to six new NBC News/Marist polls. The momentum in these races, however, has swung mostly in […] Read more »
What Colorado’s elections this year could say about 2016
Over the next nine days, the focus in Colorado will be on the competitive Senate race between Democratic Sen. Mark Udall and his challenger, Republican Rep. Cory Gardner, and on the gubernatorial contest that pits Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper against former Republican congressman Bob Beauprez. The results will have immediate […] Read more »
Colorado: Presidential Surge Voters May Swing Close Race
Project New America is releasing the results from a new Colorado survey among Presidential Surge Voters. … This poll reveals a hidden group of the electorate that many other public polls are not capturing because they are heavy cell phone users and didn’t vote in 2010. They could swing the […] Read more »
Colorado’s Politics Are as Divided as They Get
Of the handful of extremely close U.S. Senate races this year, the battle over the Colorado seat being defended by Democratic Sen. Mark Udall is one of the closest, mirroring the sharply divided politics of the state. Forty-two percent of Coloradans in the first half of 2014 identified as or […] Read more »
GOP Senate Candidates Open Up Leads in Key States
Republican Senate candidates have opened up leads in the key states of Arkansas and Kentucky, putting them in a strong position to win back the U.S. Senate, according to new NBC News/Marist polls. But another NBC/Marist poll shows Democrats holding on in the blue state of Colorado, suggesting a limit […] Read more »
Republicans: ‘Thank God for Mississippi!’
… Mississippi, a state often ignored by the national political world, managed to do something rarely seen in politics: Produce two upsets in the same race in a three-week span. And it bucked a trend of generally pathetic turnout in primaries nationwide to produce the second and then first-largest primary […] Read more »