PPP (1/23-25, registered voters):
Michael Bennet (D-inc): 40
John Suthers (R): 34Michael Bennet (D-inc): 43
Scott McInnis (R): 37Michael Bennet (D-inc): 48
Tom Tancredo (R): 39Michael Bennet (D-inc): 41
Bill Owens (R): 44
(MoE: ±3.2%)
The bad news is: few people in Colorado know much of anything about their new senator, Michael Bennet, appointed out of semi-obscurity (he was the Denver schools superintendent) to fill the seat left vacant by Ken Salazar. His favorable/unfavorable rating is 33/21, with a massive 45% not sure.
On the plus side, though, that leaves him plenty of room for growth, and his unknown-ness doesn’t seem to be hampering his prospects for re-election in 2010. Bennet wins three out of four prospective matchups, and the only one he doesn’t win is against popular former governor Bill Owens, who hasn’t given any indication of any intent to run against Bennet. Two of the other matchups are even more irrelevant, as Attorney General John Suthers and ex-Rep. Scott McInnis both took themselves out of the running in the days since the poll was taken. That leaves Bennet vs. Tom Tancredo, which doesn’t look to be much of a contest at this point.
H/t DTM,B!