Entries Categorized with "Presidential Tracker"
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, July 20
- Posted: July 20, 2012
- Author(s): Erin Ellis
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, Presidential Elections, FairVote
Obama and Romney cancel campaign events in swing states Florida and New Hampshire, respectively, to address last night's tragic Colorado shooting; polls show that the candidates are deadlocked in battleground states at 46 percent apiece; a high turnout of African American voters could turn the tables in Obama's favor.
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, July 17
- Posted: July 17, 2012
- Author(s): Jared Gay, Erin Ellis
- Categories: Home, Presidential Tracker, FairVote
Obama and Romney visit swing states Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively, to bash one another's economic policies. Furthermore, analysts identify Virginia as the most crucial swing state this election and some predict that Obama can win its Electoral College votes.
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, July 10
- Posted: July 10, 2012
- Author(s): Jared Gay, Erin Ellis
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home
President Obama campaigns in swing state Iowa and Romney in swing state Colorado; mobilizing black female voters could be a tiebreaker for Obama; Missouri, now a red-leaning state, is becoming "irrelevant."
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, July 3
- Posted: July 3, 2012
- Author(s): Erin Ellis
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home
Is Florida the state to win? Did Obama's trip to Colorodo hurt or help his re-election bid? Plus: the states whose residents contribute the most money to campaigns are getting the least bang for their buck as Obama and Romney continue to target their ad spending in battleground states.
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Presidential Tracker and State Strategy: June 28
- Posted: June 28, 2012
- Author(s): Erin Ellis
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, FairVote
The latest news on the POTUS 2012 campaign trail: Barack Obama prepares for his own swing state bus tour; Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania could be the three key swing states to win; Obama enjoys an advantage among Latinos, which could give him a lead in swing states.
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Presidential Tracker and State Strategies: June 26, 2012
- Posted: June 26, 2012
- Author(s): Jared Gay, Erin Ellis
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, FairVote
Our Presidential Tracker series is now releasing semiweekly news updates on Romney and Obama's whereabouts and state strategies.
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Romney Tracker: Swing states, fundraising states and who else?
- Posted: June 6, 2012
- Author(s): Jared Gay
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, National Popular Vote
We are tracking Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama's public events throughout this campaign season to see what their travel behavior reveals about our voting rules. This post focuses on Mitt Romney's events since April 24, 2012.
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Presidential Tracker: The Orphaned States of America
- Posted: May 16, 2012
- Author(s): Jared Gay
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, National Popular Vote
Two weeks ago, voters in South Carolina looked on as President Obama passed them by once again. Since coming into office in 2008, the president has held 18 events in North Carolina, yet has not once held any sort of event in South Carolina. Geographically, religiously, and historically, the Carolinas are quite similar. The big difference: In 2008, President Obama won North Carolina with 49.9%, but lost South Carolina with 44.9%.That modest difference means everything given the way states currently cast their electoral votes.
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Presidential Tracker: New Evidence of our Shrinking Battleground
- Posted: January 30, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Katie P. Kelly, Hüseyin Koyuncu
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, National Popular Vote
President Obama's travel patterns over the past months have been leaning toward battleground and fundraising states. How does the whole of 2011 shape up? We summarize the past year and look at what is to come as the 2012 presidential election year comes into full swing.
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Presidential Tracker: Looking at the Structure
- Posted: December 1, 2011
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Katie P. Kelly
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, National Popular Vote
Tracking the president's events and visits doesn't produce surprises considering the electoral system under which he operates, but it does provide insight into the inadequacies of our current structure -- affirming that the rules have a direct correlation on the outcomes.