Update: Colorado Presidential Polls Show Obama Leading

In my article of September 4th, I wrote that RealClearpolitics.com showed Obama was at 45.20% and McCain at 44.80%. This gave Obama a 0.4% lead or a virtual tie. Presidential polls in Colorado change everyday. Polls taken on September 4th will have different results than one taken today. Today RealClearPolitics.com shows Obama at 49.5% and McCain at 44.3%.

This comes out to a 5.2% lead for Obama. As you can see Obama has taken a lead in the presidential polls in Colorado. The national poll of RealClearPolitics.com show Obama has a 7.4% lead over McCain. I appears that McCain is slipping every since the financial and stock market crisis. Some political contributors are saying that Obama has peaked too early and will begin to slip, making the contest in November very tight. The presidential polls in Colorado are starting to reflect the national trend with the spread widening and the dead heat is evaporating. If the trend of the presidential polls in Colorado shows that Colorado is leaning towards the Obama camp. Colorado may lose its battleground state status.

My preference for tracking polls is RealClearPolitics.com. This website takes many polls from many sources and comes up with an average. They also list all the polls they use and provide links to the polls if you are interested in pursuing an individual poll.

It has been interesting following the presidential polls in Colorado. However, poll results will not affect me in how I am going to vote in the presidential election. I am an unaffiliated registered voter and I have already decided on the candidate of my choice. I recently received my vote by mail ballot and there is a strong possibility that I will fill out the ballot soon and avoid the last two weeks of this political frenzy. If I do submit my ballot early then the presidential polls in Colorado will be interesting to watch but will mean nothing to me since I will have already used my vote on the candidate of my choice.

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. If the polls remain tight I speculate that the advertising will still be heavy and intense. However, if the polls show that Colorado is leaning to one candidate the other party will start to conserve their resources and concentrate on other states where their chances of victory are greater.