Two factors are in current play in the dash to the finishing line in the 2008 presidential race and both are favorable to Obama and unfavorable for McCain.

McCain and his campaign team frantically scramble, constantly changing strategy on the components to reach the magic number of 270 electoral votes and a victory on November 4.  

Last week, after abandoning heavy ground efforts in former battleground states Michigan and Wisconsin, CNN announced that McCain was shifting forces away from  crucial Colorado, which under virtually all perceived analyses the Republicans need to prevail.

Yesterday McCain held what some campaign observers called one of his best rallies in Denver.  All available polling evidence at this point, despite McCain's effort, shows Obama in front in Colorado.  Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar asserted yesterday that, while he expects the result to be close, that Obama's superior ground effort will prevail and that the Illinois senator is currently ahead.