Rove to Address Colorado Delegates

Former President Bush adviser Karl Rove will address the Colorado delegation at their breakfast Wednesday morning, according to a source who will attend the meeting.

The meeting will take place at the Sheraton Four Points in Minneapolis at 7:30 a.m.

In an August 14 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Rove listed Colorado as one of four states that will be key battlegrounds in 2008. Democrats had their national convention in Denver last week.

Rove wrote that Democrats “have succeeded at shrinking the Republican advantage among registered voters. The GOP now has just 68,507 more voters on the rolls in Colorado than Democrats, down from a 176,572 edge four years ago.”

Rove indicated that Obama must carry either Colorado or Virginia in addition to another small state to win the election.

“Of the two, Mr. Obama is best positioned to pick up Colorado’s nine electoral votes,” Rove wrote.

– Jackie Kucinich