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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (26393)	7/22/2008 1:39:35 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Battleground Stretches West "Western Republican states that mostly were ignored by Democrats until Sen. Barack Obama 'showed up' are turning into political battlegrounds in the 2008 election," according to the Washington Times. Obama "is aggressively challenging Sen. John McCain in at least six of them, including Republican strongholds New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Montana and North and South Dakota, where polls show the race between the two rivals is close or in a dead heat." His strategy has two parts: "First and foremost, these states have been trending Democratic in the past decade and are ripe for the taking. Second, the closeness of the presidential race demands picking up additional electoral votes in Republican territory to offset potential losses in major tossup states like Florida and Ohio." Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports Obama "is using his fundraising advantage over McCain to build a network of campaign workers in states Republicans have dominated for decades." politicalwire.com