Presidential Polls Colorado: Obama, Romney Still Tied In Latest Data
As the 2012 presidential election winds down to its final days, the candidates and their campaigns are focusing intensely on a group of important battleground states where the race is presently too close to call, but where the entire election could ultimately be decided.
According to The Huffington Post's Electoral College map projection, which is based on an analysis of various nationwide and state by state polling data, the six states still in the toss up pile as of Friday are Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.
Those states represent a total of 88 electoral votes - a hefty sum considering each candidate needs a total of 270 electoral votes to successfully win the election. That sum would be incredibly valuable to either candidate, based on The Huffington Post's current projection, which has President Barack Obama at 259 electoral votes and Mitt Romney at 206 votes.
In Colorado, a total of 9 electoral votes are up for grabs, and they'll all go to whichever candidate can carry the state on Election Day, which is now only four days away.
According to The Huffington Post's data analysis, President Obama is ahead in Colorado, but just by a hair. The incumbent is polling at 48 percent in the state, while his GOP challenger Romney is behind by only one percentage point at 47 percent.
Data from national polling firm Rasmussen tells a slightly different story.
In that poll, 50 percent of Colorado voters surveyed said they plan to vote for Romney, while the president lags behind by three percentage points at 47 percent. Of the remaining respondents included in the poll, 2 percent of voters plan to vote for a different candidate, and another 1 percent are still undecided about how they will cast their vote on Nov. 6.
The race has been tight in Colorado for weeks.
"The latest findings mark little change from last week, when Romney led 50 percent to 46 percent," the Rasmussen report said. "Two weeks earlier, Obama was ahead by one - 49 percent to 48 percent - but there's been a shift in several of the swing states since the first presidential debate on Oct. 3. In surveys in Colorado since July, Romney has earned 45 percent to 50 percent of the vote, while the president has picked up 45 percent to 49 percent support."
