president are locked in an exceedingly close race as they
shuttle from one critical state to another and dispatch
surrogates ranging from former President Bill Clinton to ex-
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to locations they cannot
make on their own.
Obama spoke to a crowd of about 14,000 students and
supporters at Ohio University, imploring them to vote early.
"I want your vote. I am not too proud to beg. I want you to
vote," he said.
States where voters are neither reliably Democratic nor
Republican take on added importance in U.S. presidential
elections because the outcome is not decided by the
nationwide popular vote. Instead, candidates compete for each
state's electoral votes. Each state gets one electoral vote
for each of its Congress members.
A little less than three weeks before Election Day, Obama
appears on course to win states and the District of Columbia
that account for 237 of the 270 electoral votes needed for
victory. The same is true for Romney in states with 191
electoral votes.
The remaining 110 electoral votes are divided among the hotly
contested battleground states of Florida (29), North Carolina
(15), Virginia (13), New Hampshire (4), Iowa (6), Colorado
(9), Nevada (6), Ohio (18) and Wisconsin (10).
Thank you Pranabda, for the recent communiqué from
Thank you Pranabda, for the recent communiqué from
Rashtrapati Bhawan suggesting replacing of age-old honorifics
attached to President’s name with simpler titles. It’s a
welcome and long overdue step.
