# Which voter group is going to most largely determine the outcome of this election?

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**Created:** [September 9, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-voter-group-is-going-to-most-largely-determine-the-outcome-of-this-election/462844 "2008-09-09T21:01:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-voter-group-is-going-to-most-largely-determine-the-outcome-of-this-election/462844/21 "2008-09-10T14:07:23Z")

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> [@Enfant Terrible](#):
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> Yeah, but that’s West Virginia. I _gulp_ think that Michigan and Pennsylvania will snap out of it…
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> Come on, Michigander Republicans! McCain had a chance to get a real expert on the economy in Mitt Romney and he blew it! He’s anti-Michigan! He roots for Ohio State! You gonna take that?

You in Michigan?

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**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-voter-group-is-going-to-most-largely-determine-the-outcome-of-this-election/462844/22 "2008-09-10T14:25:39Z")

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White women. They appear, according to a report on the BBC News this morning, to have switched wholesale to McCain 53% to 41% from a 15 point preference for Obama.

So - Game Over really.

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-voter-group-is-going-to-most-largely-determine-the-outcome-of-this-election/462844/23 "2008-09-10T14:30:45Z")

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I turned on the TV this morning, and what did I stumble across on the local (NECN) cable news program? A look at Palin’s inquiry about removing books from the Wasilla library and the subsequent firing of the librarian, including a look at the extreme (okay, to me anyway) views of the Pentecostal church she then attended, with a clip of its pastor preaching homophobia. NECN is an affiliate of ABC News and this story was one of their feeds.

[Here’s the online written version.](http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5766173&page=1) The video is there to watch. The lead-in from Brian Ross: “As the mayor of the town of Wasilla, Sarah Palin raised questions about removing books in the public library, and then tried to fire the town librarian. _She_ says the two were not connected.” Yep, Brian Ross put a skeptical emphasis on “she”. Watch the whole story; the video is harder-hitting than the written version, IMO. Among the things I learned was that the librarian was at that time the president of the Alaska Library Association, which I suspect undercuts any argument by the Palin side that she was fired for incompetence.

Looks like the ink-stained wretches are beginning to take a look under the surface of the latest shiny object.

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