COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be in Colorado Springs on Wednesday for an invitation-only appearance.
His campaign announced the visit Friday but released no other details.
Obama previously visited the state on May 28 and Jan. 30.
Colorado Springs is the home of Focus on the Family. Earlier this week, the group’s founder, James Dobson, used his radio show to criticize a speech Obama gave to a liberal Christian group, accusing the Illinois senator of distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible. Obama countered that Dobson was “making stuff up.”
Colorado, which voted Republican in 2004, could be significant in this year’s election, even though it has only nine electoral votes. It’s one of about a dozen states believed to have the potential to switch columns this year.
A poll released Thursday shows Obama leading Republican John McCain by 5 percentage points in Colorado. The poll, by Quinnipiac University, The Wall Street Journal and washingtonpost.com, surveyed 1,351 likely voters June 17-24. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.
