John Hickenlooper Still Leads Colorado Governor Race, But More Are Undecided

Democrat John Hickenlooper still has a healthy lead in the three-way race for Colorado governor, but more voters have moved into the undecided column, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Aug. 29.

Hickenlooper gets 36 percent of the vote compared to 24 percent for Republican businessman Dan Maes and 14 percent for former GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, who is running as a third party candidate.

But those numbers represent a drop in support for all three compared to Rasmussen's Aug. 11 poll, while the number Rasmussen has for undecideds has gone up from 5 percent to 20 percent.

In the previous poll, Hickenlooper led Maes by 43 percent to 31 percent with 18 percent for Tancredo.

When "leaners" are included -- those voters who didn't express an initial preference but were pressed to make a choice -- Hickenlooper's margin narrows to 40 percent to 32 percent over Maes, with 9 percent for Tancredo, 2 percent for some other candidate and 16 percent undecided.

The number of voters who see each candidate "very" favorably has also slipped: for Hickenlooper, from 35 percent to 29 percent; for Maes, from 12 percent to 7 percent; and, for Tancredo, from 14 percent to 10 percent.

Maes' support among fellow Republicans has fallen from 59 percent to 45 percent since the last poll, while Tancredo's has dropped form 25 percent to 17 percent.

Tancredo, who rejected calls by Maes to step aside after Maes won the GOP primary, repeated Saturday that he can't support the GOP nominee and intended to stay in the race as the candidate of the American Constitution Party, according to the Grand Junction Sentinel.

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