Battleground: Blue states wrapped up?

Obama will not be spending much time in blue states over the next 15 days, the AP writes. "He and his aides appear so confident of his prospects that apart from a brief stop in Madison, Wis., next Thursday, Obama currently has no plans during the next 10 days to return to Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Hampshire or any other state that voted for John Kerry in 2004. Instead, he intends to spend two days this week in Florida, where early voting begins on Monday, and travel to Virginia, Iowa, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico and possibly Nevada and Indiana. Those states hold 97 electoral votes combined, and Bush all in 2004.”   “Obama also may stop in West Virginia, where his campaign recently bought statewide television advertising in a late attempt to put the state's five electoral votes into serious contention." COLORADO: The Denver Post : "Republican John McCain is struggling to hold on to Colorado and a handful of critical red states that President Bush took four years ago."   ... (link)