Royal Gorge Tea Party Straw Poll Shows No Clear Favorite

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by: Colorado Pols

An update from Carrie Canterbury of the Canon City Daily Record:

Tougher laws and harsher penalties to better protect American citizens, limiting control of the federal government and doing away with Common Core were a few of the hot topics discussed during Saturday's Republican gubernatorial candidate forum at Mountain View Core Knowledge School.

Hopefuls Bob Beauprez, Greg Brophy, Scott Gessler, Steven House, Mike Kopp and Roni Sylvester fielded questions during the event hosted by the Royal Gorge Republican Women and the Royal Gorge Tea Party. Tom Tancredo declined the invitation to participate in the forum.

Roxanna Hollabaugh of the Royal Gorge Tea Party said a straw poll following the forum showed 25 percent of the votes went to Gessler; 22 percent to Beauprez; 20 percent to Kopp; 17 percent to Brophy; and 16 percent to House. She said with about 160 possible votes, a little more than half of the audience submitted a straw poll (58 percent).

This straw poll shows that there there are a lot of undecided Republican primary voters–or maybe a large number of unaccounted for Tom Tancredo voters, who wasn't present–but it's still quite striking how evenly divided the support was among all five of these candidates. In the end, we expect that the better name recognition for Scott Gessler, Bob Beauprez and Tancredo will keep them at the top of such polls for the time being.

Two other candidates now more or less on life support, Greg Brophy and Mike Kopp, could see a boost if Tancredo, who is petitioning onto the June primary ballot, chooses to release his delegates ahead of the state convention this weekend. In that event, we suspect those delegates would in large part shift to Brophy as opposed to Gessler or Beauprez. As for Kopp, the state assembly represents a last slim chance at relevancy.

12 thoughts on “Royal Gorge Tea Party Straw Poll Shows No Clear Favorite”

Moderatus says:

April 7, 2014 at 1:33 pm

"No clear favorite?" Gessler by three is how i read it.

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1. BlueCat says:
  
  April 7, 2014 at 1:44 pm
  
  Well, no one ever accused you of knowing much..
  
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mamajama55 says:

April 7, 2014 at 1:38 pm

Why Royal Gorge? Are its demographics supposedly most representative of CO Republican voters?

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1. Colorado Pols says:
  
  April 7, 2014 at 1:41 pm
  
  It happened this weekend, and the straw poll results were reported in the story. That's all, though we wouldn't say Canon City Tea Partiers are less representative than anyone else.
  
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davebarnes says:

April 7, 2014 at 2:12 pm

Cañon

not Canon

not Canyon

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1. Robb says:
  
  April 7, 2014 at 6:09 pm
  
  As a Coloradoan I consider it a privilege handed to me by God Himself to pronounce (if not spell) things however I care to.
  
  To wit: like everyone else in Denver, I've now taken to accenting both the "gal" and the "gallop" in Galapegos Street.
  
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  1. davebarnes says:
    
    April 7, 2014 at 8:20 pm
    
    You are wrong.
    Galápagos is correct.
    And, the Street is singular.
    
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  2. notaskinnycook says:
    
    April 7, 2014 at 9:55 pm
    
    There is only one Coloradoan; the newspaper in Fort Collins. Call a resident of the state that and elicit "You're not from around here. are you?".
    
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    1. Robb says:
      
      April 9, 2014 at 1:43 pm
      
      In fairness I've only been here 16 years, so relative newcomer. And my sarcasm might've been a bit wry and so gone unnoticed, so apologies there.
      
      But the way I've heard my fellow Denverians pronounce Galapagos still makes my head spin.
      
      And I think I just coined Denverian. Denverite? Denveranian? Denveroan? I'm going with Denveradoanites. 😀
      
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      1. mamajama55 says:
        
        April 9, 2014 at 1:47 pm
        
        "Denverite" was the common term for we who grew up going to Mile High Stadium.
        
        And, it's Goll OP a goess street
        
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        Voyageur says:
        
        April 9, 2014 at 2:06 pm
        
        I thought it was Denveroid.
        
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2. Voyageur says:
  
  April 9, 2014 at 4:21 pm
  
  You say "Cañon"
  
  And I say "Go fuck yourself."
  
  You say "Tilde"
  
  And I say "Go fuck yourself."
  
  "Cañon" "Go fuck yourself."
  
  "Tilde" "Go fuck yourself."
  
  Let's call the whole thing off.
  
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