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Romney Pressures Obama by Expanding Electoral Map

LAPhil Wrote: Nov 01, 2012 9:08 AM
Actually, I think Romney will win by unfortunately not be a landslide, which will give the lefties a reason to have a hissy fit and yell fraud and voter supression for weeks on end.
LAPhil Wrote: Nov 01, 2012 9:09 AM
Make that "but" unfortunately and not "by" a landslide. When is this forum going to have an edit function?
loadstar Wrote: Nov 01, 2012 9:39 AM
Phil--

I agree about that edit function...it is such a waste to have to post minor edits
Mary559 Wrote: Nov 01, 2012 10:24 AM
This is not an English Lit class with teachers of grammar, etc. We all get caught up in what we are saying sometimes and this new language of texting makes it worse.We all know what he meant to say.
As the East Coast recoils from Hurricane Sandy, the political news is of new states suddenly inundated with presidential campaign ads. First Wisconsin, then Pennsylvania, more recently Minnesota. Ann Romney is campaigning in Michigan; Bill Clinton in Minnesota.

All these are states Barack Obama carried by 10 points or more in 2008. Why is the electoral map scrambled this year?

One reason, which I wrote about last week, is that Mitt Romney seems to be running better in affluent suburbs than other recent Republican nominees. That's one reason he made big gains after the first debate in Florida and Virginia --...

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