If you live in California, New York, or Oregon, you can vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson, and not worry about throwing a vote away. But as an Ohio resident, I can tell you in all seriousness, my vote is VERY IMPORTANT. According to Nate Silver's
538 forecast, Ohio has a 50% chance of being the tipping point state; that is, it is as likely as not to be the state that gives Obama (or Romney) the needed electoral votes to remain (or become) president.
I've got to admit, all this attention has been nice. Every other day, one of the candidates or his running mate has visited my state, from Cincinnati and Dayton to Columbus and Cleveland. Even in the third debate last night, which supposedly focused on foreign policy, the candidates were wooing Ohio. That talk about "getting tough on China"? It was actually about Ohio.
The race has certainly tightened over the past three weeks. But I'm confident Ohio will do you proud, President Obama.
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Can we assume the meme was authorized by the president? :-)
But, seriously, I hope you Buckeyes are able to deliver. Out here in the Beaver State, I think there are a lot of us who are thankful we're not being bombarded by political ads.
Don't know how the people in Ohio and New Hampshire can stand it....
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