Floyd Ceruli, Colorado's leading resident political pollster and the former Chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party did not mince any words in describing Mark Udall's "very bad start".
Ceruli said Udall "married himself" himself to Obamacare when his staff tried to pressure the Colorado Department of Insurance into walking back the number of cancelations, arguing that most were offered extensions of their plans.
“It is the factor that has now got Udall on a watchlist,” Ciruli said. “It is overwhelmingly because of the decline in the value of the Democratic brand and of course because he’s made some significant missteps.”
“He is off to a very bad start and that primarily goes to his misstep with the data suppression or whatever was going on there,” he said
Earlier Ceruli had described the issue as:
You couldn’t have a better issue for Republicans,” said Mr. Ciruli. “It’s about the one thing most problematic for Democrats, which is Obamacare. One of the main issues in 2014 for Udall is, ‘Did he vote for Obamacare? Was he responsible for Obamacare?’ And this fits nicely into that.”
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Earlier this week Quinnipiac put out a poll on the Colorado Senate race where they polled the popularity of the President and Obamacare in Colorado. The report noted:
Colorado voters disapprove 59 – 37 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, close to his worst approval rating in any Quinnipiac University state or national poll since he was elected. Men disapprove 67 – 32 percent while women disapprove 51 – 44 percent .
As to Obamacare, it was equally unpopular:
Colorado voters oppose the 2010 Affordable Care Act 60 – 37 percent.
When your friends, like the former Chairman of your party, have these nice things to say, imagine what those less inclined to like Senator Udall are thinking.
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Congrats on your first diary, AC. Floyd Ciruli a friend of Democrats? I think he's more of a contrarian, pollster, and commentator. But he was chairman of the Colorado Democratic party…in 1984. That was a while back.
At any rate, the stuff with Udall is a big whoopee over basically nothing. His staff called the insurance commission staff. They disagreed on the wording of whether or not the notices that got mailed out and then renewed were actually cancellations. It was a semantic problem as far as how things were labeled statistically.
It was not in any way Udall intimidating staffers or trying to spin numbers, as Barbara Kelley, the Executive Director of the Department of Regulatory Agencies, said after investigating the incident.
As far as the Q poll findings that 60% of Coloradans dislike Obamacare, I find those findings suspect. Coloradans tend to say, "Oh, I hate ______ in aggregate, but I love this policy and that policy that comprise the parts." Like the gun laws, which everyone hates in toto but loves, likes, or at least tolerates when considered separately.
Thanks.
I have enjoyed reading Floyd. Maybe it is the contrarian streak which I share.
and, I dare say, that is the characteristic that least endears you to those around you.
As for Udall…I wouldn't be losing any sleep over anything Floyd Ciruli has to say.
Contrarian? You sound pretty much like a mindless spin central repeating drone to me. If you've expressed an origianl thought deviating from your hive mentality I must have missed it. Greetings to the Borg.
original. Although maybe it looks right if you're dislexic?
Nope, no origianl thoughts at all.
Any possibility of being taken seriously, of turning heads, or of even being given any credibility disappears when you quote beck's "the daily caller" and the washington times.