The issue is receiving considerable attention at the moment in the swing state of Florida.
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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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.
Senator Barack Obama spent Monday in the key swing state of Michigan.
The latest tussle came as Kerry campaigned in the key swing state of Florida, home to a large number of senior citizens.
In the vital swing state of Ohio, that includes voters with a military association a seldom-noticed group that could decide whether the Buckeye State once again provides the winning margin needed to put a Republican in the White House.
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In an election like this, money could make all the difference in close swing state races and the GOP knows it.
State Senator GELLER: We are the biggest swing state in the nation.
When it is in the in-between state the climate can swing wildly.
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Nevada is a swing state again this year and Washoe County, home to Nevada's biggest little city, Reno, is the swing county in this swing state.
The former New Jersey senator is in the midst of a six-day swing through the Evergreen State in preparation for the state's February 29 primary.
Two, we're winning the early vote in every single swing state and we're ahead of where we were in 2008 on the early vote.
The KSA is still the swing producer in play, and the one state that America needs to keep onboard to exercise broader geopolitical optionality elsewhere.
That will make a few densely populated counties in each swing state the main battleground for the fall campaign, and the most important will be Fairfax County in Virginia.
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Significantly, few major newspapers have carried prominently strong Democratic retorts to GOP claims made in New York in the same way Republican criticisms regularly landed in swing-state publications during July's Democratic convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
In the process Ms Whitman and Ms Fiorina may have lost many swing voters in a state where independents are 20% of the electorate.
You can tell the flu season is in full swing when state and city governments declare a public health emergency, the evening TV news is filed with stories about pharmacies running low on vaccines and colleagues at work suddenly disappear for a few days.
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The president has pulled out of a Monday event in Ohio - considered a key swing state - in order to return to Washington to monitor the storm - although he is still set to attend a rally with former President Bill Clinton in Florida earlier in the day.
And in an election where swing state percentage gaps between the two candidates were in the single digits, even the slimmest gains along the margins loomed large.
Moreover, Mr Portman comes from the vital swing state of Ohio, and veepologists in the media pay extravagant attention to electoral geography.
The Register is the largest newspaper in a crucial swing state.
And in Lancaster, the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, we talked to voters in what is largely considered a swing area of the state.
Had the refinery closed, gas shortages could have pushed up prices by an estimated 20 cents to 30 cents a gallon in the Northeast, and some 850 union jobs would have been lost in an important electoral swing state decidedly not what the president wants people to be complaining about a few months before an election.
By expanding the list to include other products, like oranges, the Mexicans hope to impress upon other U.S. interests, like the citrus industry in a very important swing state, that they have dogs in this fight as well.
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The celebrity circus is in a full swing as the New York fashion world works itself into a state of frenzy over the Topshop opening.
New Mexico, which has the highest share (almost half) of Latinos of any state in the country, is, along with Colorado and Nevada, an important swing state for 2012.
And Cuba policy is held hostage by the Cuban diaspora in Florida, a critical swing state.
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