DENVER, Colo (KKCO) The states are Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida.
They account for 120 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Barack Obama carried all nine states in 2008. While the rest of the country is virtually ad-free, both campaigns, along with mostly republican independent groups, are battling for those nine states.
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