http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/poll.wednesday/Poll: Obama doubles lead in Colorado, gains in electoral map
CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. Poll released on Wednesday
More battleground states are going Obama's way, poll shows
CNN: Colorado now leans Obama, Indiana a toss-up state
Obama now has 286 electoral votes, McCain with 163, CNN map shows
From Paul Steinhauser
CNN Deputy Political Director
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Call it the Rocky Mountain road to the White House.
CNN's new Electoral College map shows Obama leading in several GOP-leaning states.
A new state poll suggests that Sen. Barack Obama has doubled his lead over John McCain in Colorado.
In a CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday, 53 percent of likely voters questioned say Obama is their choice for president, with 45 percent backing Sen. John McCain. That 8 point lead for Obama is double the 4-point advantage he held in a similar poll two weeks ago.
"Older voters in Colorado have started to break Obama's way," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "Two weeks ago he was losing the over-50 crowd by a couple of points. Now he has a 5-point edge among them."
The new numbers in Colorado, along with similar findings from other new polls in the state, are factors in CNN's move of Colorado from a toss-up state to an Obama on CNN's new electoral college map.
CNN is also changing Indiana from leaning McCain to toss-up.
A new CNN Poll of Polls in Indiana suggests McCain holds a 2-point lead over Obama in a state that hasn't voted Democrat in a presidential election since 1964. The poll of polls is an average of the latest state surveys. Watch more on how the candidates are polling across the country
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