Colorado:the swing vote of the election.

I just read an article titled "State Republicans slam Obama, Biden over coal comment". Apparently Biden made a comment that he and Obama do not support "clean coal" plants. Former Gov. Bill Owens and former Congress member Scott McInnis then said that the democrats are too liberal for Colorado and a threat to the state's energy needs, they also called for an "explanation" to voters about where the state's energy is going to come from, since 73% of Colorado's energy needs are met by coal. Biden's campaign immediatly began to backpedal, saying that Biden was only attempting to draw a distinction between the United States and China's outdated technology, and the U.S. should lead by developing better clean-coal methods. After reading the article I thought that Bill Owens and Scott McInnis overreacted and said things just to make Biden look bad. I personally don't really understand politics and I have no idea who I would vote for so I'm glad I can't vote. In the article Owens said that "whoever wins Colorado will be the next president." Since Colorado only has 9 electoral votes I do not think that the election will be determined if McCain wins Colorado or if Obama does. I think that everyone working on both campaign's just needs to watch what they say and think about how other people will take it.