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Nov. 7 Nightmares: When Voting Goes Bad
As Americans count the hours until the election is over thousands of lawyers for the Obama and Romney campaigns are preparing for the possibility that the...
Town And Country
Barack Obama speaks in a different dialect when he stops in Ohio, which seems to be every other day now. Even when delivering his basic stump speech, he will aim...
Study: Late-Night Comedians Make More Romney Jokes than Obama Jokes
Early voting returns may show that Obama leads in swing states so far, but Mitt Romney is outpacing his opponent in a different arena.
Women Voters Won the Second Presidential Debate
Athens, Ohio A day later, there was no doubt about the winner of the second Presidential debate: Women. Both candidates lurched onto the campaign trail Wednesday...
Will Obama Bounce Back or Fall Below His Floor?
In early June, shortly after President Obama stumbled in a press conference by saying, “the private sector is doing fine,” his senior White House and campaign...
How Obama Is Leveraging the Power of the Incumbency in Swing States
President Obama has a soft spot for the state of Ohio, a crucial swing state that every Republican President has won en route to the White House. And as Jeffrey...
Obama’s Swing State Success Explained
Ron Brownstein may be the best in the business at reading polls, and here he explains a conundrum that has puzzled a fair number of political observers: why the...
Ad Nauseam
The presidential campaign has created a wonderful problem for television stations in swing states across America. How do they keep local businesses like car...
Decrying Campaign ‘Hatred,’ Romney Tries to Redefine Obama — and Change the Subject
Mitt Romney should have been feeling great on Tuesday night. Crisscrossing five swing states over four days, he was greeted by some of the best crowds of the...
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Obama's Vaunted Ground Game Might Have Been Incredibly Overrated
A Harvard study finds the president only outperformed Romney by 1.6 points in swing states. But is that good or bad news for the GOP? ...
GOP faces Senate recruitment woes in key states
In those two Mideast swing states, the GOP hopes to make a play for seats left open by the retirement of veteran Democrats. The GOP is facing the prospect of contentious and...
In swing states, outcomes might have to await court rulings
Lawyers for both parties are descending on key swing states, anticipating legal challenges in the wake of what could become a razor-thin decision that rests on how, where, and...
In swing states, voting is marked by heightened vigilance
In one Florida county, voters were wrongly told they could vote the day after the election. In storm-racked New Jersey, emergency plans to allow email voting proved too popular...
