Homelessness and affordable housing are among the top issues stressing Denver residents as Mayor Mike Johnston slips slightly in favorability, according to a new survey by the Colorado Polling Institute (CPI).
A bipartisan team from the consulting firms Aspect Strategic and New Bridge Strategy conducted the survey for the CPI, a nonprofit that launched in 2013. The team surveyed 417 voters living in Denver for a week in mid-August over the phone and online. It’s a small sample size of the 700,000 people living in the city of Denver, but Kevin Ingham, a consultant from Aspect Strategic, says they tried to recreate Denver’s demographics.
“Some things that make Denver unique is that compared to the rest of the state, it is quite young for a mid-term electorate, it is more diverse than the state as a whole, and it is very well educated,” Ingham said. “It’s also a very democratically leaning city, with nearly half the voters who are going to turn out for the midterm elections being registered Democrats.”…