With the Presidential election increasingly gridlocked between Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, splitting the electoral college 281-257 for Obama with no toss-ups in Real Clear Politics latest analysis, it appears that for the second time in three national races it will all come down to Ohio.
According to recent polling conducted in the buckeye state, Obama leads Romney by an average of two points, or 48-46%, which is well within the margin of error. And when you consider four of the last eight polls have the candidates tied, or leading by a point or less, the race is tightening daily in this battleground.
This should come as no surprise, as both candidates have spent countless hours and monies in Ohio in an attempt to secure their 18 electoral votes on November 6th, but the modest unemployment rate of 7.2% places the Obama campaign on better footing then in other swing states with dramatically worse numbers, leaving the Romney team with more work to be done convincing voters to pull the lever for him.
Which they have slowly been doing over the past several weeks, as Romney's solid debate performances, stronger ground game efforts within the state and his positive, forward looking economic agenda is resonating with an very dissatisfied electorate, but he still has more work to be done there - and hopefully his imminent speech on turning America's economy around can help towards sealing the deal with fence sitters late in the game.
However, honestly, I don't believe the "undecided" voter will decide this election, but rather partisan turnout among the faithful in both camps will sway these two-three point margin of error swing states for one side or the other in eleven days. Which is why it's so crucial to monitor the Romney momentum vs. Obama machine battle play out, as it will likely lead to our eventual victor, and next President of the United States.
Either way, this is the state to watch over the next two weeks as both campaigns work furiously to get out their own vote while attempting to sway the still undecideds with a barrage of personal visits, advertisements and thousands of hours of thankless groundwork my faceless supporters in the final stretch.
What say you?
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In a sane world, having the following comments out in print via Obama’s racist books would have knocked him out of the running for president of the United States.(they would have crucified a white candidate for far less)
From Dreams from My Father,“ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams from my Father’,“The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, THE OTHER RACE (WHITE) WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN JUST THAT: MENACING, ALIEN, AND APART.” Barack Hussein Obama
From Dreams from My Father:“THAT HATE HADN’T GONE” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE — some CRUEL, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.” Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams from My Father’,“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote.“It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT and name names” Barack Hussein Obama
“Dreams From My Father,” page 101 (paperback, ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3)
Dreams From My Father: To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists“Dreams From My Father,” pages 99-100
Then there is his love of Islam:
Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.
From ‘Dreams of my Father’,“IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL”“..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”
From ‘Audacity of Hope:“LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope,“I WILL STAND WITH THEM (MUSLIMS) SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”
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From The Audacity Of Hope,“WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
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Don’t believe it? Think these comments taken ‘out of context’? Here it all here in his own works;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6zM5ldO35A
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Race: http://theobamafile.com/obamarace.htm
Islam — early years: http://www.theobamafile.com/_Islam/ObamaIslamEarlyYears.htm
Islam — candidate: http://theobamafile.com/_Islam/ObamaIslamCandidate.htm