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Oct 26, 2008 9:30 pm US/Mountain

CBS4/Rocky Mountain News Poll: Udall Leads By 13

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by Michael Choy, cbs4denver.com
DENVER (CBS4) ― Democrat Mark Udall leads Republican Bob Schaffer in the state's race for U.S. Senate by 13 percentage points in a new CBS4/Rocky Mountain News poll of registered Colorado voters released Sunday night.

Udall was supported by 51 percent of voters polled from Oct. 21 to Oct. 23. Schaffer was supported by 38 percent of those polled.

Schaffer's support was unchanged from the same poll two months earlier. Udall's support increased from 44 to 51 percent.

"I think Udall has taken a page from the Obama playbook to look cool, calm and steady," said Lori Weigel of Public Opinion Strategies, which conducted the poll. "(It's) that type of person that you want in Washington that looks all collected."

Udall has a larger lead among independent voters in Colorado than Obama does, the poll found.

"For the last decade, since 2000 certainly, the axiom for either party's candidates is that you need to win 60 percent of the independents," said Rick Ridder, a Democratic political strategist with RPI Strategies & Research in Denver. "Democratic candidates are being viewed as the agents of change."

"When people are reexamining some of their core values, literally, that is very, very different," Weigel said. "The other thing is that Mark Udall has not run as a Boulder liberal, even though they tried to stick him with that."

Ridder suggested the phrase "lawyer lobbyist," which was applied to Democrat Tom Strickland during the 1996 Senate campaign loss to Wayne Allard, may have resonated more with voters than "Boulder liberal."

The poll surveyed 500 registered voters in Colorado and has a margin of error of plus/minus 4.33 percent.

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Log on to cbs4denver.com from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 28 to watch a special Webcast with a pollster who conducted the survey and a political analyst. We'll take your email questions during the hour about the poll results and the final days of the campaign.

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