colorado polls

I have chosen Colorado to record the various polls in the 2008 presidential election because of its importance as a swing state and the fact that I used to live there. Because it is a swing state, it will be one of the states that both of the candidates will be looking at when it comes to the elections due to the fact that it is neither strong democrat nor republican. I also think that it is important because it hasn’t voted for the Democratic Party since 1992 and the polls are leaning more towards Obama. The other reason that I am choosing this state is because I used to live there and I know that there is a big military base there and I wanted to know how that would change the results. The polls of the candidates are presented in the following graphs. linear equation- y=.0002x+.4474 November4= 49%linear equation- y=.0002x+.4271 November 4= 47%Through these graphs that I made, I can see that Obama is very closely winning and in the polls and I have projected him winner through the linear regression. My projection is pretty accurate because it went in line with all of the other data. regression proves to work in most cases like this but if the data is scattered with not much of a pattern than it wouldn’t be very useful.