Obama Up By 12 In New Colorado Poll

[CanonRay]

The latest Rocky Mountain News/CBS4 poll shows him leading 52-40 in this "red" state.

http://www.coloradopols.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7904


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[livetohike]

1. Oh my! This is amazing

:bounce: GOBAMA!

[Honeycombe8]

2. Wow! I'm flabbergasted! The good news keeps coming and coming! Yaaay, ya'll! nt

[northofdenali]

3. Colorado? Wow. I am never going to give up on a state again!

My "stepson" (actually best friend) started out gung-ho McCain. Tom is Colorado through and through; so is his dad, so was his granddad.

Last night he told me I had to pick him up to take him to the polls, because his truck won't be out of the shop in time to go. I almost said "no way". Then he said "Obama just makes so much sense.

I'll drive him to the polls in Anchorage if that's where he needs to go to vote!

Hard bitten bunch of cowboys! (Except Boulder) They DO come around when it makes sense, don't they? :loveya:

[Lubernaut]

6. "Hard bitten bunch of cowboys! (Except Boulder) "

Ummm, no. Maybe out in the plains and parts of the western slope...

[northofdenali]

10. I meant that admiringly.

I loved the little time I got to spend there - my best friend lives in Longmont (I've known her since high school in 1970), my "big brother" lives in Loveland, and my spouse fell in love with Nederland (his first traffic circle ever).

It's not the dress or the backpack or the skis, it's the attitude. Denver was ok, Boulder rocked, but the little places were incredible. The attitude was "I live here". We have that attitude up here, as well, and anyone who is new would do best to listen to those who aren't.

I never thought Colorado was truly "red". Purple, leaning a little toward the blue - and I do know how my friends who live there will vote. They, in turn, are persuading their fellow "cowboys" to look past the (D) after the name, and look toward the issues and the resolving of same.

I didn't mean to offend. :pals:??

[DavidDvorkin]

11. I hate that "cowboy" image.

Colorado was founded on mining. The main role it played in the cattle industry in the early days was as a banking center (i.e., Denver) where cattlemen from adjoining states came to get financing, to store their money, and to get a small taste of Eastern city life.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Apologies to northofdenali

For the snappish, abrasive tone of my post. That was another lesson for me about rereading a post for tone before clicking on Post Message.

You should hear me grumbling when the Stock Show's in town and the local newsdweebs natter on about our "Western Heritage", by which they mean the absurd Hollywood image of the cowboy. I'd like to force them all to spend a few days in Leadville, much of that in the National Mining Hall of Fame (http://www.mininghalloffame.org/).

[HughMoran]

4. Good deal

Leaves a lot of room for error.

[DCBob]

5. This is another dead end for McCain. Without CO he needs to run the table on all the "tossups"...

Just looks near impossible for McCain to win now.

[nyhuskyfan]

8. Without Colorado, he's done

Unless a new state enters the toss-up column (i.e. New Hampshire, New Mexico or Pennsylvania). I guess NH could be considered toss-up at the moment since one recent poll has the lead only four.

[Smuckies]

7. 12 in CO??

That's great :bounce:

[otohara]

9. Colorado's Goin Dark Blue

None of this purple shit anymore - light blue, framed in blue or as on MSNBC YELLOW????