Posted on 10/06/2008 3:48:49 PM PDT by Chet 99
DENVER -- And you thought we were popular before.
A new Denver Post poll shows a dead heat in the race for the White House with 44 percent of Colorado voters going both for Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barak Obama.
Obama fell one percentage point from an August poll while McCain jumped two percent. But perhaps the biggest number in the Sept. 29-Oct. 1 survey of 625 registered voters is that 8 percent remain uncommitted.
"It's great to be wanted, " said Lisa Acree, one of the desired undecideds. "Well, I'm really hoping I know something in a couple weeks. It's going to be here before we know it."
With several visits by the candidates and their surrogates last week alone, Colorado can expect at least as much attention if not more over the last 30 days.
"Maybe I'm paying attention to when they're coming, but more or less, I'm just waiting to really see what these debates have to hold to see what they're going to say," said Acree.
At both McCain's Centennial office and Obama's Denver headquarters, the reaction to the poll numbers was muted.
Neither group seemed surprised or worried.
"Everything that we do is based on the fact that this is a battleground state. It's a tie state," said McCain campaign spokesman Tom Kise.
A map of the United States in the office shows Colorado's 9 electoral votes circled in green, to mark undecided, along with 5 for Nevada and New Mexico. The rest of the West appears taken by one of the two candidates.
"A year ago in Iowa, Sen. Obama was down 30 points. Now, had we paid attention to him being down by 30 points we may've had a defeatist attitude," said Obama campaign volunteer and "House" actor Kal Penn. "The polls mean very little."
Both spokesmen said their candidates will be back in the Rockies but neither knew exactly when.
Rev Wright screaming 24/7 wins this for McCain in a landslide.
I’m calling Colorado for McCain because of:
1. large Evangelical population.
2. large prolife population.
3. large Hispanic population.
4.large military and retired military population.
John McCain:
“This corruption was encouraged by Democrats in Congress, and abetted by Senator Obama.
Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place.
Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, a good idea. Well, Senator Obama, that good idea has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
To hear him talk now, you’d think he’d always opposed the dangerous practices at these institutions. But there is absolutely nothing in his record to suggest he did. He was surely familiar with the people who were creating this problem. The executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have advised him, and he has taken their money for his campaign. He has received more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than any other senator in history, with the exception of the chairman of the committee overseeing them.”
hmm
CBS poll shows 3 point difference (McCain improving) and now this. Interesting.
If they’re undecided 30 days from a Presidential election,the candidates are courting morons.
“Undecideds” amaze me. What the heck can they be thinking of? Obama and McCain come from two different planets and they can’t decide?
Kind of like saying, “I could either have the chocolate ice cream with sand, gravel, bat droppings, and thorns in it — or, I could have the vanilla with chocolate fudge sauce and whipped cream. Hmmm... Not quite sure yet. Maybe some more info will come along to help me decide. This sure is tough.”
I think I read that the true “undecideds” left now are older white women without college degrees. They are the true “swing votes” for October.
They actually swing back and forth week to week, depending on what each campaign is doing/saying.
Here’s to hoping they are swayed against Obama when they start learning more about his unsavory associates. . .
once again i say:
McCain only has to keep CO MO OH FL VA and NC
and we can all go home happy!
Well, speaking for only myself I despise you and attention addicts like you who have no core convictions at all. But that's just me.
Those types would do better under a monarchy. Undecideds make you wonder how they get out of the house in the morning. Hmm, do I wear this today, or this. Do I eat this for breakfast, or eat that, or should I just not eat. They probably are the type that spends hours and hours and hours at the mall making up their minds on the most micro of decisions.
As a real estate agent I see the type sometimes, end up showing them 50 homes.
If it is possible for anything to be more annoying than a Koolaid Democrat it has to be these so-called ‘undecided’ voters...these are the shoulders upon which the fate of the nation rests.
Let the undecideds see THIS video, Obama fears this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ
How about Obama openly campaigning for his communist cousin Odinga who signed a pact with Muslims to enact Sharia Law if elected and started riots when he lost. Obama campaigned for an openly Anti-American candidate in a foreign country in 2006 at taxpayer expense.
Hardly likely, Lisa.
The rest of us really hope you know something too, numskull.
I’m encouraged to see this but McCain-Palin must fight hard for Colorado and also Nevada. I’m sure Palin could rachet up some pro-gun votes and also the oil shale/energy independence subject. COLORADO MUST STAY RED!!!!!
A lot of movement underneath the big Gallup/CNN polls showing McCain steadily gaining ground.
I worked the phone banks for McCain Palin in CO today. The McCain-Palin supporters I spoke to were all psyched. But it was all I could do to keep from coming through the phone at some of the undecided types. “Oh, I’ve been just too busy to pay attention...” or the old, “I just don’t know what to do!”
I did my best to schmooze them...
Work with a guy who said that Brian Wilson on Fox felt like undecided people he was interviewing in Ohio and Pennsylvania broke for McCain when pressed.
This matches the profile of one of my clients who, in August, was blaming speculators for gasoline prices. Oil had just begun to fall and I mentined that speculators had driven the price down the day before. She answered:”Oh, well, that’s ok, then.”
Are the undecideds the ones who won’t vote for Bradley?
You and the polls can call it for John but massive voter fraud in key Colorado Counties will give it the Hugo Chavez treatment for BarackO.
See Arlington Virginia for the pattern.
Some of the undecideds could be conservatives who just really don’t like McCain and still don’t know if they can hold their noses and vote for him, even with Palin. I know someone like this and he’s thinking of voting Barr. I’d try to talk him out of it, but he lives in D.C. so even if they voted McCain, it wouldn’t make any difference (except in the popular vote). D.C. will go 90% Obama.
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