Can Bruce Springsteen help President Obama win Virginia? The popular singer will perform in a free concert Tuesday in Charlottesville on the president's behalf. He did the same for the president last week in Ohio, considered another must-win state in the election.
The fight for Virginia votes is getting more intense. With Election Day two weeks from Tuesday, Virginia is becoming one of the ground-zero states in the presidential election and the candidates are pulling out all the stops in trying to win the state come Nov. 6.
"I consider it one of the three crucial states," said Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report, a Washington-based newsletter, counting the others as Ohio and Colorado, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Sunday. "You've got to win two out of those three."
According to two polls released last week, Virginia's status in the presidential election has moved from leaning toward President Obama to being a "toss-up" state.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is ahead 50 percent to President Obama's 47 percent among likely Virginia voters, according to a new poll released Friday.
The poll, by Rasmussen Reports, a conservative-leaning polling firm, surveyed likely voters and was taken two nights after the second presidential debate.
An American Research Group poll released last Monday had Romney ahead by 1 percentage point in Virginia. Those who favored Romney in that poll tended to be white, age 50 and older, and male. Fifty-two percent who identified themselves as Independents in the poll said they planned to vote for Romney.
Rasmussen Reports shows that the following states have moved from "toss up" states to "leaning Romney" states:
- Florida
- North Carolina
- Missouri
The states Rasmussen puts in the "toss-up" column (he notes Wisconsin, while Rothenberg notes Colorado):
- Virginia
- Ohio
- Wisconsin
In the 2008 presidential election, Obama won Virginia by 52.62 percent to GOP nominee Sen. John McCain's 46.33 percent.
The survey of 750 likely voters by Rasmussen in Virginia was conducted Thursday by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
University of Virginia's Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball report from Thursday about the presidential election: "We don’t have a dog in this race, but we are rooting for one thing: no tie! A 269-269 Electoral College outcome would inevitably be a national crisis on par — or worse — with the 2000 Florida cliffhanger, especially if Romney lost the popular vote."
Obama and Romney each visited Northern Virginia last week. For details on those campaign stops see:
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Look at the current White House: Obama's administration pays less to women than to men--check it out. I think it was 83 cents on the dollar. Also, the Lily Ledbetter Act only extended the statute of limitations on bringing a suit--it did not change the rules otherwise. Women were already entitled to equal pay. Even Joe Biden in a recent speech said it really didn 't do anything for women.
when I lose a job it's a depression when Obams loses his job it's a recovery.
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Too often, we (collectively) prove them right. Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups.
I have been in goverment service, in one form or another, since 1978 (military, civil service, government contractor) and have yet to see an organization that was not overstaffed or duplicative. Now, I haven't been in all of them, I grant, but no commercial business could survive with the waste and inefficiency of a government bureaucracy. Neither Romney nor Obama is our guy ... but until WE THE PEOPLE wake up and demand a leader, we'll get what we get. I'm just happy I have another choice.