"Trying to get back in the swing of things, " said Palmer, who lives in nearby Colleyville.
The issue is receiving considerable attention at the moment in the swing state of Florida.
One-hundred-and-eighty thousand volunteers have been working three-hour shifts in the swing states to squeeze out every last voter.
This question is most acute in the swing county of Macomb, a bastion of socially conservative white workers.
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Although harder to interpret than in the United States, they will still be crucial in the swing senators' calculations.
The trend is especially pronounced in the swing states where the Obama camp is concentrating its efforts, points out Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster.
"There was a little bit of anxiety, but everybody was happy to be back in the swing of things, " said Sarah Swansiger, the mother of a kindergarten student.
And, it is in the swing states that voters have been most exposed to the Romney focus on China bashing as his key policy to create 12 million new jobs.
As Morris noted, McLaughlin found that in the swing state of Ohio, Democratic voters outnumbered Republicans in recent presidential elections by an average of just two percentage points (38% versus 36%).
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McIlroy aims to get back in the swing -- and respond to the gauntlet thrown down by Woods at the Houston Open, where he could return to the No. 1 ranking with victory.
During the week ending September 21, he gained strength at the national level, pulling even with the President in the Rasmussen and Gallup tracking polls, even as he has fallen behind in the swing states.
Also, their two big accomplishments--the stimulus bill and the health care bill (assuming it passes)--are mixed bags at best, and most likely liabilities in the swing districts the Dems will have to hold to stay in power.
Senior private equity players from Blackstone and KKR said the stable economic outlook and availability of financing have the buyout industry back in the swing of things and only the lack of the right opportunity is preventing deal sizes from climbing.
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Following months of rallies, speeches and media interviews, President George Bush and Democrat John Kerry are focusing their final days before Tuesday's election on the less glamorous but crucial task of getting their supporters to the polls, an artless science that's especially important in the swing states that could decide who wins the race.
The Atlantic created a detailed score sheet listing all the pundits and their predictions of the overall winner, the electoral college total, and the winner in all the swing states.
The President is also 9 percentage points ahead of his challenger in the key swing state of Florida. (The margins for error in these polls are about 3 percentage points either way).
Vice President Joe Biden was recently dispatched to Democratic stronghold Jefferson County in the important swing state of Ohio, in part because Obama barely eked out a win over John McCain in the predominately white, working-class community.
Romney hopes all this concern helps him in the Buckeye swing state and in other coal communities.
The event had far less energy than if the president was here but it is proof that politics will not stop in the vital swing states away from the storm.
Mr Romney, on the other hand, is behind in most opinion polls - badly so in the vital swing states - and needs a win.
The highest personal income tax in the 19 Democratic states in 2011 averaged 7.0%, more than 50 percent higher than the 4.6% average rate in 22 Republican states, and more than 70 percent above the 4.1% average in the 10 swing states.
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However, infighting between Mohammed Sarwar and Mike Watson, the two rival candidates for the Labour nomination, as well as an energetic local campaign by the SNP, resulted in the seat being the only one in Scotland to see a swing away from Labour in the midst of a UK-wide Labour landslide.
Mr Obama may also have problems with Catholic voters a group that has been one of the most important swing votes in America since Ronald Reagan and that is over-represented in almost all the swing states.
The main parties have crowded into the ideological centre, in pursuit of the magical swing voters in key constituencies.
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Simple math therefore indicates that Romney is moving ahead of Obama in the non-swing states even as he falls behind in the critical ones.
There was also little damage from the supply side as a dip in scrap and the swing to net de-hedging outweighed a modest rise in mine production.
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But the arrival of net job creation in three out of the last five months represents an important swing in the right direction.
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But the Middle East looms equally large in one of the key swing states in America's mid-west, Michigan.
That makes it crucial that students and their families understand the factors that affect the risk and return of a college investment in order to swing the math in their favor.
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