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10/08/08 @ 09:57:43 AM MDT
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A month and a half ago, USA Today speculated that the suburban voters would be the key to this year's presidential contest.
WASHINGTON - The presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama this fall is likely to be settled in places such as Clackamas, Arapahoe and Geauga.
Suburban counties including these - outside Portland, Denver and Cleveland, respectively - have become the hardest fought and most closely won battlegrounds of national elections. "Suburbs are where the battle line is drawn," says Robert Lang, co-director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. He says suburban voters tend to be "pragmatists and non-ideological, and they want problems fixed."
How are things going in Arapahoe?
According to official data, the Democrats in October added 4811 members to their ranks, while 1115 registered as Republican (and many of those new R's were actually brought in by Democrat-run non-partisan voter drives.)
For the first time in Colorado history, the chart has the Democrats on top in this crucial county:
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| Aaron Silverstein :: Arapahoe Dems |
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