Jones favors the Republican Party and believes candidate Mitt Romney would restart America's economic engine.
But owners of smaller businesses, like Maria Empanada in Lakewood, often take a different view.
This bakery is owned and operated by Lorena Cantarovici, an immigrant from Argentina, who favors President Obama partly for sentimental reasons.
"Under his presidency I became a citizen and I was able to open the doors of my business," said Cantarovici.
She says she got help from the Small Business Administration and other government programs.
"I am able to create jobs and work to expand my company, buying machinery, buying equipment," she said.
Cantarovici says Democratic plans to raise taxes are fine with her, as long as they target those already making a lot of money.
She says higher taxes for her small, but growing business would be harmful. "Increasing taxes will be hard on me, it will hurt me a lot, and that means I would have to cut other things, probably I would have to cut an employee," she said.
A recent University of Colorado study showed some increase in business confidence statewide, but also concern among business leaders that divisions created by election year politics could be harmful.
To spur economic growth, whoever wins the November election will have to inspire confidence in owners of both large and small businesses to expand operations and create more jobs.
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