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DarkSteven -> Vignettes from the ground. (11/4/2012 6:13:51 AM)
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This is for the swing state folks. No offense to people living in New York or California, but I want to get personal impressions of the campaign activities. I want a montage of what's happening across the country.
I live in Centennial, in Colorado. Arapahoe County, to be precise. The paper says that the county is split Dem/Rep right down the middle.
It doesn't strike me that way. I see at least five Romney signs in front yards to every Obama one. And the Romney campaign camped out on a two block stretch of Arapahoe Road, with workers waving signs along the way. There were two homemade ones, saying "Hire the Experts" and "Fire Obama". I wondered if the Fire Obama one might be more negative in tone than was wise, but at this stage of the campaign, I doubt there are many undecideds. I suppose it's just getting the faithful to cast votes, and that likely was adequate.
I live in a more settled area. I suspect that the younger, less settled area to the east is where Obama's support generally lies.
As a registered Democrat, I got mailbombed by the Obama campaign. With doorhangers for good measure. I wish that there was a magical switch somewhere that, after voting early, the switch clicks and no more campaign materials get sent. No phone calls or doorknockers, though.
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Care to share your own stories, swing staters?
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