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...winning the presidency, Obama swept numerous swing-states, including Ohio, Florida, and Colorado. He is the first Democrat to win Virginia since President Johnson...
Ohio has seen its highest ever voter registrations this election year - and an almost commensurate number of legal battles between Republicans and Democrats over which ones should count. It remains unclear which party will gain the upper hand, however, and both candidates continue swinging away at the quintessential swing state, with many neighborhoods far-flung from Democratic Cleveland still in play. By Charu Gupta / Cleveland...
...Florida's 25th congressional district in 2004. The 25th probably has more alligators than voters, since it stretches west from the southern suburbs of Miami clear across the Everglades. But if Barack Obama can win there today - and his prospects look surprisingly strong - then Florida, the nation's largest swing state, will most likely be a swamp for John McCain...
...That doesn't mean Florida - the nation's largest swing state, with 27 electoral votes - is again headed for a 2000-style disaster. The Sunshine State seems to have instituted enough changes since then, like requiring optical-scan voting machines that provide real paper trails, to make a meltdown of that magnitude unlikely. But that's not to say that Florida in 2008 won't see a presidential vote as close as 2000's. Obama does have an unexpected lead (of an average of about 4 points) over John McCain in the Florida polls. Yet it's narrow enough...
...thousands of voters this cycle. While there's little chance of Obama carrying Yavapai County, the group hopes it can pull off a good enough showing that, when added to what Dems are hoping will be record turnout in big urban areas, especially in Pima County, the state might swing to Obama. "Then, I'd go out and buy a bigger sign," says Michael Cosentino, one of the three founders of the Verde Valley Democratic organization, "and put it up so that every time McCain comes home and drives by, he can't miss...