Maybe there’s some reality out there where Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is struggling to win re-election. Maybe in alternate Colorado, Republican Rep. Mike Coffman succumbed to the NRSC’s pleas and entered the race, or suburban Denver District Attorney George Brauchler jumped in. Maybe Hillary Clinton is also facing a 4-point deficit in Colorado against GOP presidential nominee Brian Sandoval, and Bennet is hunting for every single possible crossover vote. Maybe this Bennet also has a beard and throws his campaign manager in the Agony Booth whenever he brings the senator more bad numbers from Gravis Marketing, the gold standard in polling.
But here in the Prime Universe, Bennet’s looking just fine. Quinnipiac, which has hardly been bullish for Democrats this cycle, gives him a 54-38 edge against Republican Darryl Glenn, which is even larger than Clinton’s 41-33 lead over Donald Trump. A number of other pollsters have shown double-digit leads for Bennet, and the HuffPost Pollster average has the incumbent up 51-38. While NRSC chair Roger Wicker said in mid-July that his committee would endorse the underfunded Glenn at some point in the future, the only thing they appear to have actually done for Glenn is to assign him a staffer who is splitting his time between several other states.