CO-Sen: Bennet Leads Romanoff by 6, Norton Has Early Lead in GOP Primary

Public Policy Polling (3/5-8, likely primary voters):

Michael Bennet (D-inc): 40

Andrew Romanoff (D): 34

Undecided: 26

(MoE: ±4.6%)

Jane Norton (R): 34

Ken Buck (R): 17

Tom Wiens (R): 7

Others: 9

Undecided: 32

(MoE: ±4.4%)

For the Democratic field, that’s a surprisingly close result. At this point, though, neither Bennet nor Romanoff are drawing the bulk of their support from clearly identifiable blocs. Jensen:

In the Democratic Senate contest Michael Bennet leads Andrew Romanoff 40-34. Support in this race may end up having to do more with personalities than ideology, as there’s no real divide in support along liberal/moderate lines for now. Bennet’s up 42-33 with liberals and 40-36 with moderates. Both candidates are pretty well liked by the party electorate. Bennet’s approval is a 57/21 spread with primary voters and Romanoff’s favorability comes down at 45/15. The one place where there is a clear division is along racial lines. Bennet’s up 42-34 with whites while Romanoff has the 42-31 advantage with Hispanics.

That’s all well and good, but Romanoff will be hard-pressed not to be swamped out by Bennet’s huge fundraising edge in advance of the primary.

PPP also threw in a question on the Republican gubernatorial primary, and found Scott McInnis sleepwalking to victory with a 58-8 lead over Some Dude Dan Maes.