CO-07, Gov: Colorado's blue wave

SurveyUSA. 9/21-24. Likely voters. MoE 4.5% (8/18-20 results)

O'Donnell (R) 37 (45)
Perlmutter (D) 54 (45)

That's the race for the open seat in CO-07. This is becoming Colorado Day, so let me rerun the last two polls from the governor's race:

Public Opinion Strategies (R) and the Kennedy Group (D). 9/10-12. Likely voters. MoE 4.4% (No trend lines)

Beauprez (R) 33
Ritter (D) 50

Rasmussen. 9/19. Likely voters. MoE 4.5% (8/9 results)

Beauprez (R) 34 (39)
Ritter (D) 50 (48)

Surprisingly matching results for the two polls. The bottom is falling out from the Colorado GOP, and at this point, Ritter may have the coattails to pull along Democratic candidates all the way down the ballot. Perlmutter is running away with it in the 7th, and Paccione, Winter, and Fawcett are all making serious runs.

The NRCC is already focusing much of its "firewall" efforts on Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Will they have anything left for Colorado? Looking at independent expenditures the last few months, the NRCC has done a bunch of direct mail pieces against Paccione, on behalf of Musgrave in CO-04 a week ago, a couple of direct mail pieces for O'Donnell in early September and late August, and that's it. No television.

Colorado Republicans may be forced to fend for themselves. And given they lost control in 2004 of both chambers of the state legislature, a U.S. Senate seat, and a U.S. House seat, their recent track record is most definitely lacking.