WASHINGTON -- The whole point of President Obama's three-day swing through the West was to make sure the region knows it's important in 2012, though the White House may have ended up offending a few folks in Colorado.

The administration gave reporters a fancy blue credential with a map of the United States marked, "THE TRIP OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA TO THE AMERICAN WEST" that had special colors trying to highlight the three states he was visiting: California, Colorado, and Washington state.

But there was a snafu because the credential instead highlighted Wyoming -- instead of Colorado. While the two states do look remarkably similar on a map, it's not the type of mishap you want when trying to send the signal that Colorado's nine electoral votes are very important to you.

"If the White House can't even find Colorado on the map, how in the world does Barack Obama expect to address the issues of the economy, unemployment that are facing Colorado voters?" Ryan Call, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, asked in a telephone interview.

But Laura Chapin, a Democratic strategist based in Colorado, told Fox News that it's much ado about nothing. She was at Tuesday's event that drew a few thousand people to Lincoln High School in a Hispanic area of Denver and said the energy from the crowd told her Obama is likely to stay in good graces in the state he beat Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by nine points in 2008...