Polls

Two polls recently released show Colorado going strongly in both directions. The CBS / Quinnipac poll showed Romney winning 50/45, but take heart libs, the PPP poll rather unsurprisingly shows the Bamster walking away at 49/43.

An 11 point difference? Someone is either cooking the books or screwing the pooch big time.

I was unable to immediately locate either polls methodology, but it's probably safe to assume that PPP thinks Colorado will vote in '12 just like it did in '08 as though '10 didn't exist. The CBS poll probably took the '10 elections as its base when the GOP took the house and nearly the Senate.

Interesting to note from the PPP poll was the question asked of all the people polled as to how they saw themselves:

Would you describe yourself as very liberal,
somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat
conservative, or very conservative?
Very liberal ...................................................... 14%
Somewhat liberal ............................................ 16%
Moderate......................................................... 27%
Somewhat conservative.................................. 21%
Very conservative ........................................... 22%

Ignore the center. Everybody is a moderate, just ask them. As the pastime of conjugating adjectives goes: I am a moderate. You are partisan. He, she, or it is an extremist.

Even so, note the big bias toward the conservative side. If the phone numbers were randomly dialed, this is not a good omen for the left.