DENVER -- And you thought we were popular before.

A new Denver Post poll shows a dead heat in the race for the White House with 44 percent of Colorado voters going both for Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barak Obama.

Obama fell one percentage point from an August poll while McCain jumped two percent. But perhaps the biggest number in the Sept. 29-Oct. 1 survey of 625 registered voters is that 8 percent remain uncommitted.

"It's great to be wanted, " said Lisa Acree, one of the desired undecideds. "Well, I'm really hoping I know something in a couple weeks. It's going to be here before we know it."

With several visits by the candidates and their surrogates last week alone, Colorado can expect at least as much attention if not more over the last 30 days.

"Maybe I'm paying attention to when they're coming, but more or less, I'm just waiting to really see what these debates have to hold to see what they're going to say," said Acree.

At both McCain's Centennial office and Obama's Denver headquarters, the reaction to the poll numbers was muted.

Neither group seemed surprised or worried.

"Everything that we do is based on the fact that this is a battleground state. It's a tie state," said McCain campaign spokesman Tom Kise.

A map of the United States in the office shows Colorado's 9 electoral votes circled in green, to mark undecided, along with 5 for Nevada and New Mexico. The rest of the West appears taken by one of the two candidates.

"A year ago in Iowa, Sen. Obama was down 30 points. Now, had we paid attention to him being down by 30 points we may've had a defeatist attitude," said Obama campaign volunteer and "House" actor Kal Penn. "The polls mean very little."

Both spokesmen said their candidates will be back in the Rockies but neither knew exactly when.