Why is Ken Buck leading appointed Obama Democrat Senator Michael Bennet (D-Washington, DC) by 46% to 43% in Rasmussen Reports’ Aug. 11 survey of 750 likely Colorado voters?

Some reasons that Buck starts the general election campaign with a small lead:

Andrew Romanoff’s attacks on Bennet in the Democrats’ primary were much tougher than Jane Norton’s snips at Buck in the GOP primary. Bennet is living down Washington and Wall Street and a bungled financing deal for the Denver Public Schools. Buck is living down high heels and half a dozen “dumbass” Tea Party birthers.

Bennet has voted for numerous job killing amendments and bills, and he promises to vote for more. He voted for a job killing stimulus bill early last year and for ObamaCare. ObamaCare imposes huge tax increases on all Americans while giving Obama the power to sharply restrict access to care for very sick people and most seniors. After the election, win or lose, Bennet will vote during the lame duck session for job killing climate and energy bills and for job killing union card check bills. He’s a rubber stamp for Obama’s job killing efforts to redistribute wealth in America.

Buck knows Colorado and wants to represent the state. 

Bennet grew up in Washington, DC, and wants to represent the over paid employes in his home town. He wants to create more government jobs and spend more on our failing public education morass.

Even though Bennet made more than $11 million in the  private sector, he wants to crush it. Bennet knows how to give us the same kind of centrally-planned and mismanaged Federal government that destroyed the old Soviet Union. While he enjoys being rich, he thinks being powerful would be more fun and satisfying. Bennet is Washington, DC’s first Senator just as the man he replaced, Sen. Ken Salazar was Mexico’s first Senator.

Ken Buck is very accessible to reporters, editorial writers, columnists and most bloggers. He isn’t afraid to discuss anything with anyone. He believes that if he answers questions honestly, he’ll win.

Michael Bennet is relatively protected by his highly-paid political consultants and handlers, most of whom probably are from out of Colorado. (I don’t really know, but high-powered campaigns usually bring in talent from outside the state.) 

Ken Buck has spent the last year driving to all 64 Colorado counties multiple times. He has friends and believers in every county, and they are working hard for him.

Bennet’s been too busy micro managing our lives in Washington to spend much time in Colorado. He has establishment Democrats who depend on government jobs and handouts working for him in every county.

Financial incentives in the form of jobs and expensive government handouts for party hacks will work to Bennet’s advantage, but true believers will work to Buck’s advantage.

LINKS:

www.Rasmussenreports.com.

Bennet versus Buck. Editorial, The Daily Sentinel.

Bennet, Romanoff join hands, shift target to GOP’s Buck. By Michael Booth.

Colorado Dems make nice as contest gets tougher. By Michael Booth.

Can Ken Buck buck the system? By David Cantanese & Jonathan Martin.