Poll: Obama up 5 points in Colorado

THE POLL: Denver Post poll, the presidential race among likely voters in Colorado (9 electoral votes).

THE NUMBERS: Barack Obama 49 percent, John McCain 44 percent.

OF INTEREST: Unaffiliated voters — who make up more than one-third of the electorate — back Obama 57 percent to 32 percent in a state that has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate only once in 40 years. Four percent of all polled were still undecided; 3 percent favored another candidate.

THE DETAILS: Conducted by telephone Oct. 28-29 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. among 625 voters plus an additional 200 unaffiliated voters. Margin of sampling error plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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