Ohio and Florida are the key ones. Others include Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, Iowa, New Hampshire, Delaware and North Carolina.
Ohio and Florida are the key ones. Others include Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, Iowa, New Hampshire, Delaware and North Carolina.
Grangers
In the Civil War, the Swing States were the slave-states of the Upper South that had not voted Confederate, but were in danger of doing so. At the time of Lincoln's inauguration, there were eight of these. After the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's appeal for volunteer troops, four of them declared for the Confederacy. The other four were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. These were known as the Border States, and Lincoln's most urgent priority was to keep them loyal. This left eleven states in the Confederacy. (There were never eleven Swing States).
The hammock was first invented in the area of Vermont, but many Historians suggested that Maine, Vermont and Rhode-Island are the states where hammock was invented.
a state where there is not a clear majority
All those states were deeply divided, but there was not quite enough pro-Southern sentiment to swing the vote. Even so, Lincoln had a hard job keeping them onside - a tribute to his political skill, greatly outclassing his opposite number Jefferson Davis.
Swing states
Illinois is the only one
Swing states are states in the United States that do not consistently vote for one political party in elections. These states are considered crucial in determining the outcome of presidential elections as they can "swing" the overall result toward one candidate or another. Examples of swing states include Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Swing states are states where the level of support for the competing political parties is close, making them crucial in determining the outcome of an election. These states often have a history of voting for different parties in past elections, and their electoral votes can swing the overall outcome in favor of one party or another.
Vote for either Democrats or Republicans
Grangers
The only ones I know are North Carolina, Florida, Nevada, Colorado, and Ohio. North Carolina is usally republican but now it is a swing state
Florida and Ohio were the most important battleground or swing states in 2012. Others include Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin ,New Hampshire and maybe Pennsylvania.
Candidates concentrate on what are known as swing states. These are states that polls indicate are close to even as to which candidate they will vote for, The concentration is most intense in swing states with a large number of electoral votes.
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Because they have a better chance to get people to vote for them. The election is basically a math problem. The person who reaches 270 electoral votes wins. I live in California and the election is over before my 53 electoral votes are counted if the states add up correctly in the swing states.
Swing States