Week 5

Swing States

Florida, Pennslvania, Ohio and Nevada are important swing states in this election. They are still up for grabs because the states have contrasting populations, which are fairly equally numbered, so their electoral votes are up grabs. Also, Maimi is a hung democratic city and Jacksonville is a juge republican city. Candidates are both fighting extra hard for Florida, Ohio and Pennslvania because they all have a considerable amount of electoral votes.

Florida is a swing state because it has a large population of spanish voters, who are more likely to vote democratic and a large population of old voters who are more likely to vote republican. Polls do suggest that Obama maintains a slight lead ahead of McCain. The candidates are bombarding the state with ads (including spanish ads) and other proaganda to try and gain the upper hand. I predict Obama will win Florida, because he is better than McCain.

Pennslvania is a swing state because there are two large democratic cities on either end, Philadelphia and PITTSBURG!!!!!!!! and in the middle its all rural and republican. That concoction whips up a tasty serving of contested state. The candidates are both helping themselves to nice large servings of it in this delicious election. Obama is also going to win Pennslvania becuase more people in the cities are going to vote in this election becuase it has gained so much publicity and there are such high stakes with our economy.