Colorado PPP: Obama 49 Romney 43

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We can all agree that this state will be close, along with Florida, Ohio and Virginia.

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We can all agree that this state will be close, along with Florida, Ohio and Virginia.

No we can't. The margin here will be larger than in any of the above states.

I'll take that with a grain of salt and doubt.

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We can all agree that this state will be close, along with Florida, Ohio and Virginia.

No we can't. The margin here will be larger than in any of the above states.

We can all agree that this state will be close, along with Florida, Ohio and Virginia.

No we can't. The margin here will be larger than in any of the above states.

The margin will be higher than in those states--for Romney.

Why are Democrats so obsessed with the liberalization of Colorado?  It's entirely possible that, just as Ohio didn't bounce to the right nearly as quickly as the 2010 elections indicated, that Democratic wins in 2006 and 2008 were not so much a realignment in Colorado politics than a protest vote of sorts.  Republicans actually did quite well in Colorado in 2010, except for a mangled gubernatorial race that the GOP was leading for over a year, and a poor Senate run by a relative novice.

If the GOP was in such bad shape in Colorado, thus meriting the sort of "Colorado is blue through and through" silliness I hear from a lot of Democrats, then the GOP wouldn't have the expansive active voter registration lead that it does.  And the president's new gallup number in Colorado?  A whopping 43%.  That's lower than Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia.

So what's going on here?  Most likely, Colorado has moved quite a bit to the right, along with most of the rest of the country.  The Democratic performance in high profile races in 2010 only masked that, much like President Bush's win here in '04 masked major Democratic gains in other races.  It's a state that Republicans, with a good candidate, should definitely win, and likely will this year. 

And, as it happens, I do think that the president has a great shot to win Ohio and Virginia, which will all but make up for a tough loss in Colorado.

I happen to agree with that, but debating with the majority of democrats on the forums makes me grow tired and unenthusiastic.