Presidential Polls in Colorado
On RealClearPolitics.com they showed an interactive chart where on Sept 4th Obama was at 45.20 % and McCain at 44.80 %. As you can see on Aug 26th Obama was ahead of McCain by close to 2 percent. Today that lead has shrunk to four tenths of a percent.
Presidential polls in Colorado show that this race is in a virtual dead heat. RealClearPolitics.com show nationally Obama 48.8% and McCain at 43%. The national polls reflect a 5.8 lead for Obama. Denver, Colorado, had the Democratic National Convention and it was anticipated that having the convention there would increase the chances that this state's electoral votes could be won for the Democratic candidate.
According to these polls, this plan is not generating the anticipated results. The Democratic convention bump was not seen in Colorado. It will be interesting to see if a convention bump is generated after the Republican National Convention is over.
Presidential polls in Colorado have been interesting. However, poll results will not affect me in how I am going to vote in the presidential election. I am an unaffiliated voter. We exceed the number of registered Republican voters and Democratic voters. The sum of the two parties does exceed the number of unaffiliated voters though. I would speculate that is why the presidential polls in Colorado are at a dead heat.
The candidates have been advertising on TV very heavily in the Denver Metro area. I do not recall seeing as much political advertising as I am seeing this year. It is almost sixty days before the election. What is it going to be like as the election gets closer? The presidential polls in Colorado may determine the amount of campaigning done here. If the polls remain tight I am sure we can expect to see an increase in campaign advertising.
I have heard the phrase "battleground state" many times. If this truly is a battleground state, I am quite confident Colorado will remain a tight race up to the November election. It is exciting being a battleground state. The state is getting all this attention for a small prize of nine electoral votes.
Published by Tom Treloar
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Post a CommentI have some friends who were delegates from Nevada to the Republican convention. They happened to be Ron Paul delegates. They say they were followed all the time by convention security and harassed in various ways. Seems to me that this is quite unusual and shocking. The McCain campaign went out of their way to crack down on anything that hinted at less than full support for John McCain. This included confiscating any written material, books etc., that were for any other viewpoint. Since the venue is owned by the city of St. Paul, this was probably illegal. Here is a link to a radio interview with Carl Bunce, one of the Nevada delegates.
http://www.knpr.org/audio2008/mp3/080904_c-bunce.mp3
On Friday Sept 5th The Rocky Mountain News reported that the Republican Party regained the lead over unaffiliated voters. Unaffiliated voters reign was short lived.