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Poll: Schaffer, Udall race tightens
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall’s edge over Republican Bob Schaffer has been significantly cut, according to polling data released today by Rasmussen Reports.
The poll of 500 likely voters, conducted July 21, shows the percentage of voters backing Udall has dropped from 49 percent to 47 percent between mid-June and mid-July while Schaffer’s share of voters have increased from 40 percent to 43 percent over the same period. (See the chart below for the historical trend of the Rasmussen Reports polls.)
Granted this is just one poll, but it cannot seem like good news for Udall’s folks, who have largely had to sit back and watch the press pick apart the former Fort Collins congressman’s record.
Whether Schaffer’s debate performance had anything to do with his jump in the polls is not readily apparent from the data. Nonetheless, something moved those voters.
(We’ll be curious what Schaffer’s campaign team says about the Rasmussen Reports poll in light of recent comments discounting early polling.)
The poll has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.
*Udall photo from the Associated Press.
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