Poll: Obama Over Romney By 13 In Colorado

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A new poll of Colorado from Public Policy Polling (D) shows President Obama with a 13 point lead over likely Republican presidential nominee former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Obama gets 53 percent to Romney’s 40, as the President’s approval rating has perked up and leads 57 – 31 among independent voters in the state. “Colorado flipped to the Democratic column in 2008 and it doesn’t look like it’s going back where it came from,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling said in a statement. “Obama is looking exceptionally strong there.”

PPP pollsters noted a major shift in their numbers in the state, where fellow Democrats seemed to be trending away from Obama but are now snapping back:

The story in Colorado is the same as everywhere: the president has seen his popularity rise in the last few months, while the dragging GOP primary contest has sunk their candidates’ personal numbers. Romney’s favorability rating is still the best of the Republicans’ except Paul’s, but he sits at 31% favorable and 60% unfavorable, down from 35-53 in the previous poll. Meanwhile, 50% approve and 47% disapprove of Obama’s job performance, up eight points on the margin from early December (45-50).

Where Obama was seeing 14% of his party cross over for Romney in December, now only 7% do, while 90% stick with him, up from 83%. That 14-point marginal shift, plus a doubling of his lead with independents (from 49-37 to 57-31), is responsible for Obama’s surge. Democrats are a narrow plurality of the electorate, and independents are almost a third of voters, more than in most other states.

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