right up there in the north central to the northwest part of the state. >> chuck, are they comfortable that they're going to continue -- team obama -- they're going to continue to perform well with these white working-class voters? do they fear -- >> reporter: you know what i compare it to? it's sort of they're leaking support, but it's slow. >> right. >> reporter: and did they build up enough of a lead that they don't leak -- that by the time election day comes, they are still at 50.1%. >> right. they're still ahead. i think that's the issue. the obama team has kept talking about ohio. if you start to see the trend lines change there, that that's the real test for governor romney. i mean, they're seeing it. you talked about the colorado poll here. and we know what motivates in colorado. former governor there telling me once, somebody would walk up to him on the street and tell him what the debt-to-gdp ratio was in colorado. it's a huge issue as it is throughout some of the western