"The poll from the Post asked the straight-up question about "who would you vote for," and Ritter surprisingly leads both Republican candidates. According to the Post, Ritter would beat Beauprez 42-36 (with 22% undecided) and would beat Holtzman 41-30 (with 29% undecided)."
"...The poll by the Rocky Mountain News and CBS 4 shows that 80 percent of Coloradans have heard of Beauprez, almost twice the name recognition of his GOP rival, Holtzman, a former Cabinet secretary and university president who had a 44 percent recognition rate.
Sixty-three percent of voters have heard of Ritter, a Colorado native and former Denver district attorney who is the lone Democrat in the race so far. But only one in three voters has an opinion of Ritter - either favorable or unfavorable - meaning that Coloradans might know who he is but that they don't know much about him, Weigel said."
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