Different Poll, Different Result: Hickenlooper Leads for Governor in Colorado

A new poll of the Colorado governor's race between Democrat John Hickenlooper, Denver's mayor, and former Republican Rep. Scott McInnis has an entirely different result than one released Monday by Rasmussen Reports. While Rasmussen had McInnis edging ahead by a 48 percent to 42 percent margin, Public Policy Polling says its survey has Hickenlooper ahead by 50 percent to 39 percent, with 11 percent undecided.

Hickenlooper is better known than McInnis, according to the PPP poll conducted March 5-8. Forty-four percent did not know enough about McInnis to express a favorable or unfavorable opinion, and the rest were split between regarding him positively or negatively. Fifty-one percent have a favorable opinion of Hickenlooper compared to 27 percent who do not, with 22 percent not sure of how they view him.
Hickenlooper does somewhat better among fellow Democrats than McInnis does among Republicans, but he has a more substantial 48 percent to 34 percent lead among independents (24 percent of the sample), with 18 percent undecided.

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