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With Election Day two weeks away, political campaigns and outside groups have stepped up their efforts, funneling millions of more dollars into television advertisements that inundate the airwaves across America—of course, a bit more heavily in the courted swing states. According to The New York Times, “the candidates, their parties and outside groups were spending a combined $25 million on a heavy 7-to-10-day period” a few weeks ago. “From Oct. 7 to Oct. 17 they were to spend up to $40 million, according to one Republican...
First, there are no swing voters. After one of the biggest bloodbaths in the history of presidential debates, John Kerry shot up, maybe, a handful of points, and that bump seems to be fading. Several polls show essentially no change since the debates started. After all, if you’ve been paying attention, you probably have some pretty firm opinions about the guy in the White House...
...proud to hail from one of those swing states that the cable news folks get to color-code every time they get a new poll. My home state, New Mexico, was the closest state in the union in 2000. Late on election night, Bush was winning the state by 4 votes when a retired engineer noticed a mathematical error that had lopped 500 votes off Al Gore’s total. When the error was fixed and all the ballots were counted, Gore had won the state by 366 votes. If Gore had claimed one other state?...
...groups focused on registering and turning out minority voters. In New Mexico, a loose association of nonprofits incuding Moving America Forward has registered more than 70,000 new voters, more than enough to shift the political terrain in the Democrats’ favor. This is happening in almost every swing state. The polls show a closely divided country, but these new voters, most of whom are Democrats, are not being polled. All the polls are measuring an electorate that no longer exists. The real electorate is larger and more Democratic than the pundits think...
...that regime” by denying these academics “the hospitality of the United States.” The State Department is wrong on all accounts, and it fails to conceal its real ulterior objective: appeasing the significant bloc of Cuban-American voters in the crucial swing state of Florida...