Presidential Polls Colorado: Latest Data Shows Tight Race Between Obama, Romney
As the 2012 presidential election winds down to its very last day, the candidates and their campaigns are focusing intensely on a group of important battleground states that could ultimately decide the outcome of the entire election, but where the race is still too close to call.
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 five states still in the toss up pile as of Saturday are Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire North Carolina and Virginia.
Those states represent a total of 70 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 27 electoral votes and Mitt Romney at 191 votes.
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In Colorado, a total of nine electoral votes are up for grabs to the candidate who can win over voters there and carry the state on Nov. 6.
President Obama is currently enjoying an advantage in Colorado, but he is only ahead by a hair, according to The Huffington Post's data. Obama is presently polling at 48 percent in that state, while his GOP challenger is only behind by one percentage point with support from 47 percent of voters in Colorado.
But data from national polling firm Rasmussen shows a different standing in Colorado.
In that poll, Romney is in the lead by three percentage points. The Republican nominee has support from 50 percent of Colorado voters surveyed, while Obama trails him with support from 47 percent of voters. Of the remaining respondents in the survey, 2 percent plan to vote for a different candidate on Election Day, and 1 percent are still undecided about how they will cast their ballot on Nov. 6.
