September 10, 2012 09:36 PM UTC

Obama Back In Denver Metro Area Thursday

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Politico’s Charles Mahtesian profiles Colorado as one of “9 states where the race will be won” today, underscoring all the attention we’re getting:

The Romney formula depends on turning out the GOP base, especially on the energy-oriented Western Slope and in El Paso County’s Colorado Springs, home to a politically active evangelical Christian community and a heavy military influence. This year, the expectation among Republicans is that Romney will also gain more traction in the Denver suburbs than John McCain.

The Obama strategy closely resembles the one successfully employed by Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in 2010. Bennet ran well among Hispanics and benefited from an enormous gender gap – 17 points, according to exit polls. The same themes Bennet used – notably abortion rights and contraception – have been put to use again in Colorado and were underscored at the Democratic convention in Charlotte last week.

There’s a reason the president campaigned in Colorado with Sandra Fluke in early August, and why he’ll be back again later this week. [Pols emphasis]

And here we thought Sandra Fluke was just about getting under Greg Brophy’s skin.

The above certainly makes more sense.

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Why don’t they just rent a house? FOX 31’s Eli Stokols:

President Barack Obama will make his first post-convention campaign stop in Colorado this Thursday with a rally in Golden, right smack in the middle of Jefferson County, one of three suburban metro area counties that will likely determine who wins this state’s nine electoral votes and, perhaps, the White House.

The rally will take place at the Golden Community Center in Lions Park at 11 a.m., the campaign announced Monday morning…

On Monday, the Romney campaign released a memo from its pollster, Neil Newhouse, advising the media not to “get too worked up about the latest polling.”

“While some voters will feel a bit of a sugar-high from the conventions, the basic structure of the race has not changed significantly,” Newhouse writes. “The reality of the Obama economy will reassert itself as the ultimate downfall of the Obama Presidency, and Mitt Romney will win this race.”

Here’s your list of ticket pickup locations. Nothing on the Romney-Ryan campaign calendar for Colorado as of now for this week, but if you wait a few minutes, that’s liable to change.