May 27, 2012 03:16 AM UTC

Poll: Will HD-29 Libertarian "Spoil" the Race?

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• by: Colorado Pols

A few months ago, one of our diarists profiled Hans Romer, a Libertarian candidate running in House District 29 against Democrat Tracy Kraft-Tharp and Republican Representative Robert Ramirez.

Because Ramirez narrowly beat Representative Debbie Benefield by under 200 votes in 2010, a terrible year for Democratic incumbents by all accounts, we’ve heard rumblings from Republicans worried that Romer will “spoil” the race — siphoning enough conservative-leaning voters away from Ramirez to deliver Kraft-Tharp the seat. Indeed, Ramirez’s narrow margin-of-victory in 2010, combined with his inherent flaws as a legislator, give Romer’s candidacy particular importance. Ramirez, after all, simply needs to earn every single right-leaning vote he can, a feat all that more difficult with a Libertarian in the race.

We want to know: is Romer’s candidacy the final nail in the Ramirez campaign’s coffin? Will he hurt Kraft-Tharp’s chances? Or will the third-party candidate have no impact at all? A poll follows.  

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