{"id":7683,"date":"2012-05-06T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2012-05-06T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T17:40:50","slug":"swing-states-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/swing-states-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing States to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re getting close to the time to start tracking the Presidential race on a state by state basis, so here\u2019s a suggestion regarding some key states to watch.  So far, Obama appears to be ahead in all of them, but that is no excuse for overconfidence.  How many of us thought that there was no way America could be so stupid as to let Bush close enough to steal the election in 2004?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Map credit:<\/font> electoral-vote.com<\/a><\/p>\n

With just over six months until Election Day, an analysis of the emerging electoral map by The New York Times found that the outcome would most likely be determined by how well President Obama and Mitt Romney perform in nine tossup states.<\/p>\n

All nine voted for Mr. Obama in 2008, only to see Republicans make big gains since then.<\/p>\n

Now, with many of those states transformed economically and politically by the recession, they are perhaps even less predictable than they were in past close elections. The disparity in their circumstances highlights the challenges that both the Obama and the Romney campaigns face in framing arguments that will resonate across the country.<\/p>\n

The nine \u2014 Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin \u2014 offer both parties reasons for hope, and concern. It is no coincidence that Mr. Obama chose two of them, Ohio and Virginia, to hold his first official re-election rallies on Saturday\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I encourage you to click through, because the article has much more detailed information.<\/font><\/p>\n

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!<\/font><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re getting close to the time to start tracking the Presidential race on a state by state basis, so here\u2019s a suggestion regarding some key states to watch.  So far, Obama appears to be ahead in all of them, but that is no excuse for overconfidence.  How many of us thought that there was no […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}