Election Blog Week 5

Soooo, for this week we got to compare to two different states that are considered swing states in this 2008 Election! Yay fun stuff... :D

Two states who are currently are strongly contested between the parties are Virginia and North Carolina. They were very pivotal because Virginia carries 13 Electoral Votes and North Carolina carries 15 Electoral votes which is a good decent amount. At the moment in VA Barrak Obama is ahead 51% to 44% and in NC Barrak Obama is ahead barely by 48% to 47%.

Virginia in this case has been very different this year. Virginia has always tended to lean Republican in the last few presidential elections, by at least a Margin of 5%, mainly because of southern Virginia always tended to vote Republican. But, this year Obama had put much effort into his campaigning there and the votes are way different then as expected. At the end of March this year McCain had a significant lead in the winning Virginia race, but it then became afterwards contested constantly in a close race up until it's split now.

North Carolina, another state which is very different this election. Alike Virginia, it has always tended to go towards Republican in the last few Elections. This year Obama has also strongly focused on North Carolina and has now pulled a 1% lead as of today. But, this is a close race in North Carolina so we'll see what happens.

I predict that Virginia will go towards Barrak Obama because there's a large margin difference between to the two, although not much, it's enough to last through the election if it sticks. For North Carolina I want to say Obama because his efforts of these last few weeks will help him out. But, since it is only by a 1% winning difference as of right now, it could lean for John McCain, so we'll see what happens! :D

Majority of the information was found on... http://www.electoral-vote.com/ for the updated map of the election on Oct. 20th.