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Did Obama Benefit from Competent GOP Governors' Policies on Election Day?

FinalRac Wrote: Nov 09, 2012 12:44 PM

There are now 29 Pub guvs. Dems have 20. One I. And the competent Pub guvs down South, in Ohio, Wisc., Az and other areas have to be published by the national GOP to tell people, that the reason people are doing better in those states not because of the Santa Claus Dem Party but because of Pub policies. Why the uninformed are not informed of this is beyond me. But Pubs better publish those facts.

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Did Obama Benefit from Competent GOP Governors' Policies on Election Day?

Here's something I've been trying to figure out since Obama's re-election on Tuesday, and which I included in my column in Townhall Magazine's December issue (so consider this a sneak peek!): Everyone kept saying the economy was the main issue; and the exit polls agreed. How did residents of swing states feel comfortable enough economically to think four more years of the same would help?

Of the “toss up” states in this election, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada and Florida all elected GOP governors post-2008, and several have GOP senators. In fact, only two toss-up states in 2012 had...