Why Brandon Shaffer's "Poll" is bad

Liberal blogs Colorado Pols and Colorado Confidential are celebrating a poll that shows State Senator "Boulder Brandon" Shaffer (Liberal - Boulder County) leading Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, (Great American - Fort Morgan) in Colorado's 4th Congressional District.

You can read the polling memo here.

There are a number of problems with this poll.

First of all, they're not releasing the poll's cross-tabs and methodology. For all we know they polled the people in Shaffer's living room.

Secondly, as silly as it sounds, I am sure there is a misunderstanding among the average Joe and Jane Six-Pack between Brandon and Bob Shaffer/Schaffer.

Lastly, it's May of 2007. No one really cares about the next election right now, and our same Joe and Jane Six-Pack on the eastern plains don't know just how liberal Boulder Brandon's voting record really is...

Brandon Shaffer is in for CO-4

According to the liberal Colorado Confidential State Senator Brandon Shaffer, D - Longmont, will make a run for Colorado's 4th congressional district.

Shaffer will face off against Angry Angie Paccione and Eric "Which Party Do I Belong To" Eidsness in the Dem primary.

They all want to run against conservative hero Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, R - Fort Morgan.

From CC:

Shaffer visited Washington D.C. last week with his wife, Jessicca, and after returning to Colorado yesterday he made up his mind to run against Republican incumbent Marilyn Musgrave in 2008. Last week Democrat Angie Paccione filed paperwork to run again in 2008 (Paccione narrowly lost to Musgrave last fall), and Shaffer says that he plans to talk with her soon about trying to avoid a primary.

"Angie is a friend of mine," says Shaffer. "I would hope that she would put her personal ambitions aside to give us the best chance possible to see change in the fourth congressional district and to win that seat."

Dirty Deceit: Meet Brandon Shaffer

From the Political Pale Horse

PPH Exclusive: Dem strategy for CD 4
This information came from a Political Pale Horse source.Democrats figure if you can’t win the hearts and minds of voters, confusing them into voting for you is the next best thing. Meet Democratic State Senator Brandon Shaffer from Longmont. This is the person the Democrats want to face off against Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave. The Four Millionaires Club of Colorado (Bridges, Stryker, Polis, and Gill) is recruiting the state senator to run in an election where former Congressman Bob Schaffer will be seeking the U.S. Senate seat. Their idea is to confuse voters in the 4th into voting for Shaffer when they think they are voting for Schaffer.Colorado Democrats have spent millions of dollars trying to win the 4th and decided that deceit is the only way they might be able to capture it. The money they spent on Stan “The Taxin’ Man” Matsunaka and Angie “I’m So Angry” Paccione has them in an uproar. They want results. So this is how they plan to do it.