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Are we there yet? Well, almost. Op-Ed editors asked four writers from swing states to file occasional dispatches about the campaign. Here is their second round of reporting.
Waving political placards in Florida traffic jam.
Virginia takes it politics one candidate at a time.
In Colorado, mountains of campaign ads.
Will Michigan's Poles shift toward Barack Obama?
Our swing state finally swung, and no one was more surprised than we were.
My friend Marian was stunned to see so many Obama signs in Detroit suburbs that typically vote Republican. Marian has long been my guide to voting patterns in this state, particularly among Poles, a key Michigan voting bloc (of which he is a member). Alongside die-hard union Democrats in cities like Hamtramck, there are Poles who still blame Franklin D. Roosevelt for handing their homeland to Stalin at Yalta and Poles who fled Detroit in the ’70s and ’80s and would never vote for a black candidate because they blame a string of African-American mayors, including the recently deposed Kwame Kilpatrick, for their city’s devastation.… Seguir leyendo »