January 28, 2009 01:48 AM UTC

Poll Released on Bennet and 2010

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• by: colorado_dude

Just found this on CQ Politics:

Public Policy Polling Survey just released some numbers on Bennet and 2010.

Fav/Unfav is 33/21 with a whopping 45% undecided, indicating I think that this is still way, way up for grabs.

Good news for the GOP, Owens beats Bennet by 3 points (probably mostly name ID at this point, but still…)

Also McInnis (not likely but he is a contender/name-dropper) is only down by 6, which is very overcome-able especially if the economy remains down.

However as CQ notes, the most important number for Bennet is that 58% of Hispanics don’t have any opinion on him, moving them from solid Democrat (ala the work of the Salazars, Udall, et al.) to swing group. In a generic ballot, hispanics go 46/44/10 Dem-Repub-Undecided, for Bennet it’s 28-14-58.

This means that Bennet has a lot of work ahead of him. This isn’t unwinnable for him or anything, but he does not have the solid base that Ken had or that Obama/Udall rallied.

Any thoughts on Bennet’s best move from here (besides tour like hell?), or the liklihood that Bill Owens will start floating around?

CQ article:

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmsp…

PPP poll:

http://www.publicpolicypolling…