Colorado voters support police reform law, haven’t heard of QAnon, poll finds

A new poll pro­vides fur­ther evi­dence that Don­ald Trump and Cory Gard­ner are in trou­ble in Colorado.

But it also offers fresh insight into how Col­oradans gen­er­al­ly view the Black Lives Mat­ter move­ment, QAnon and lead­ers’ response to the coro­n­avirus pandemic.

The find­ings were released by the lib­er­al advo­ca­cy group Pro­gress­Now Col­orado, which con­tract­ed with Demo­c­ra­t­ic firm Glob­al Strat­e­gy Group to con­duct the sur­vey. The poll­sters sur­veyed 800 like­ly Col­orado vot­ers between Aug. 28 and Sept. 1, with a break­down of par­ty affil­i­a­tions — 43% unaf­fil­i­at­ed vot­ers, 27% Repub­li­cans and 30% Democ­rats — that rough­ly mir­rors the lat­est statewide break­down report­ed by the Sec­re­tary of State’s Office. The poll has a 3.5% mar­gin of error.

The poll finds Joe Biden lead­ing Trump by 11 points in the pres­i­den­tial race. Kanye West will be on the state’s bal­lot in that race, too, and he received 1% support.

The poll finds that in the U.S. Sen­ate race, Repub­li­can incum­bent Gard­ner is down 10 points to Demo­c­ra­t­ic chal­lenger Hick­en­loop­er, the for­mer gov­er­nor. Oth­er recent polls have shown Gard­ner with­in sin­gle dig­its of Hick­en­loop­er, includ­ing one released last week that put Gard­ner just five points behind. Many view Gard­ner as the most vul­ner­a­ble Repub­li­can incum­bent in the Sen­ate, and the out­come of this race could be a decid­ing fac­tor in whether Democ­rats can gain con­trol of the chamber.

Over­all, 55% of poll respon­dents said they view the Black Lives Mat­ter move­ment favor­ably, while 40% view it unfa­vor­ably and 5% were unfa­mil­iar. Asked which par­ty they’d trust with “improv­ing rela­tions between police and the Black com­mu­ni­ty,” 49% of respon­dents chose the Democ­rats and 32% chose the GOP.

On the top­ic of police reform, respon­dents were almost even­ly divid­ed. Asked to choose between two state­ments, 50% agreed “there may be a few bad apples who should be pun­ished, but we don’t need sweep­ing reforms that will make it hard­er for police to keep us safe” and 47% felt “we need to make sig­nif­i­cant changes to polic­ing in this coun­try to pre­vent police bru­tal­i­ty and mis­con­duct.” The rest said they didn’t know enough to have an opinion.

Still, more than two-thirds of respon­dents — 69% — said they approve of Sen­ate Bill 217, a sweep­ing police reform mea­sure passed into law by the state leg­is­la­ture in late spring.

“Clear­ly vot­ers don’t think SB-217 is going too far, or that it won’t keep us safe,” said Glob­al Strat­e­gy Group’s Andrew Bau­mann, who con­duct­ed the survey.

More than half of respon­dents said they weren’t famil­iar with QAnon, the pro-Trump con­spir­a­cy move­ment that asserts, among oth­er things, that Demo­c­ra­t­ic pow­er play­ers such as George Soros and Hillary Clin­ton are part of a glob­al child sex-traf­fick­ing and blood-suck­ing ring that’s work­ing to under­mine Trump. Eight per­cent of Col­oradans sur­veyed said they view Qanon favor­ably, while 38% have an unfa­vor­able view.

That so many are unfa­mil­iar with it, Bau­mann said, is “a good reminder that most reg­u­lar vot­ers don’t spend a lot of time in the online polit­i­cal bubble.”

The poll found that Col­oradans are gen­er­al­ly sat­is­fied with the state’s response to the coro­n­avirus. Asked about Gov. Jared Polis’ han­dling of the pan­dem­ic, 58% said they approve, com­pared with 36% who dis­ap­prove. On Trump’s coro­n­avirus response, the find­ings flip: 58% of respon­dents dis­ap­prove, and 40% approve.



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