Michael Bennet (D-inc): 46 (44)
Jane Norton (R): 40 (41)
Undecided: 14 (14)
Michael Bennet (D-inc): 46 (45)
Ken Buck (R): 43 (39)
Undecided: 12 (16)
Andrew Romanoff (D): 42 (43)
Jane Norton (R): 43 (41)
Undecided: 15 (16)
Andrew Romanoff (D-inc): 43 (41)
Ken Buck (R): 42 (38)
Undecided: 15 (22)
(MoE: ±3.1%)
With all eyes on the Senate primaries today (for which they released numbers yesterday, giving small leads to Michael Bennet and Jane Norton), PPP is also out with how things look for the general. This has been an easy race to get pessimistic about, but that's because the race has been polled almost exclusively by Rasmussen; PPP's few looks at the race have tended to give small advantages to the Democrats, and that continues to be the case here.
What PPP's Tom Jensen finds most striking about this race is how unpopular everyone currently is, thanks to heavy doses of negative campaigning on both sides of the aisle. Bennet, for instance, is at 32/48 approvals (down from 34/44 in May), not the kind of numbers you usually recover from... unless the Republicans are doing worse. Norton is at 28/44 (down from 20/32), and Ken Buck seems to have fared the worst of all, dropping to 26/46 (down from 19/24). Andrew Romanoff comes the closest to smelling like roses (or at least vaguely rose-scented compost), at 35/37 (down from 31/26). So, although Bennet currently fares better than Romanoff in the general, probably thanks to his name rec advantage, Romanoff would seem to have more upside... but the real question, if Romanoff somehow pulls off the upset in the primary tonight, would be whether Romanoff can access the money quickly enough to capitalize on his room to grow.
