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2010-07-01 Home Front: Politix

Warning Signs for Obama in Bellwether Ohio

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Posted by Fred 2010-07-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 All this despite the huge numbers who don't pay taxes or expect to benefit from this in the future.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-01 00:19|| 2010-07-01 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Ohio, with its 20 electoral votes, has always been in the top tier of bellwether-states-to-watch in presidential elections given that you have to go back to 1960 -- when Richard Nixon carried it in his losing race against John F. Kennedy -- for the last time it failed to support the winner.

This assumes NIxon actually lost that race.

Posted by charger 2010-07-01 10:30|| 2010-07-01 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 He did after the votes were counted in Chicago. Chicago? Hmmm.

Posted by Alistaire Glavins9758 2010-07-01 13:18|| 2010-07-01 13:18|| Front Page Top

#4 How did that old story go?

Joe Kennedy Sr. to JFK (supposedly): "I told you I could make sure you won the election; I didn't say I could guarantee a landslide."

Posted by mom 2010-07-01 21:46|| 2010-07-01 21:46|| Front Page Top

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