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POPSUSA Election: The Battlegroung States.
Some say the list of 'swing states,' is even shorter now. It comes down to two major states: Pennsylvania and Virginia. OR Florida and Ohio Depending which way these states votes, then Colorado + Nevada will be important. A new twist is that if Obama wins the previously always Republican state of North Carolina, McCain has to win All of The Above. ?? - I think this is accurate. From the beginning Obama had a 'western state strategy to pick up Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico. He's now expected to win New Mexico. These states have normally voted Republican but have a substantial Latino population which, overall, is favoring Obama. There small number of electoral votes (based on population) would normally be considered almost insignificant; but when you put all three together it changes everything on the East Coast. Prior to this a candidate needed 3 out of 4 of the Big Four Swing States...but with the Western states only two are needed. Virginia will show whic
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POPSWhy the UK Needs a Palin
But the absence of redneck representation is also partly a function of Britain’s recent political convergence. The main parties have crowded into the ideological centre, in pursuit of the magical swing voters in key constituencies. More extreme views inevitably get marginalised: they may be widely held, but in places and geographical patterns that make them electorally safe to ignore. So the loudest voices articulating the redneck attitude belong to blood-spitting tabloid newspapers. Liberal Britons who skip the Sun and the Daily Mail rarely encounter it, or indeed rednecks themselves, unless they meet at motorway service stations or on budget air flights. They are as distant from each other, intellectually, as are the denizens of New York and the Ozarks. It isn’t only the rednecks who ought to worry about the consequences of this. These include the stark decline in turnout at general elections—concentrated at the bottom of the social scale—and the creeping rise, in some places, of
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