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News First interviews Sen. Barack Obama
Story By: KOAA
Source: KOAA
Published Sun Oct 26, 2008, 04:04 PM MDT
Updated Mon Oct 27, 2008, 09:52 AM MDT
Sen. Barack Obama is touring through Colorado. He drew a crowd of about 100,000 people to a rally in Denver on Sunday. After the rally, he spoke with News First's Abby Lane in a one-on-one interview.
With just nine days before the election, Senator Barack Obama returned to Colorado. He pushed early voting and mail-in ballots, and launched attacks on his opponent.
“Just this morning Senator McCain said that actually he and President Bush share a common philosophy,” Obama said. “That's right Colorado, I guess that was John McCain giving us a little straight talk.”
With Democrats on track to make gains in the House and Senate, McCain urged voters to elect him to be a check on a one-party Congress. Obama says his main concern is changing the current economic policies.
“I don't think that we're going to have time to engage in a bunch of crazy things that people, the McCain campaign specifically, has suggested we might,” he said.
Like other swing states, Colorado is seeing a lot of love from the candidates while other states get little - if any - attention. Obama says this points to a problem with the electoral college system, but says change is unlikely.
“If you live in California, or New York or my home state Illinois, you're feeling a little neglected right now,” he said. “I don't foresee any sudden move to change the electoral college but we have tried to do is expand the map.”
A spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign e-mailed a statement to Obama’s visit.
"Barack Obama can't name a single issue or philosophy on which he's opposed the democratic-controlled congress - not one. John McCain opposed President Bush's wasteful spending policy, his big oil energy policy and his efforts to grow the federal government by 40% - Obama supported bush on all three,” it read.
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