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-Here are the key swing states for the [[Presidential Election 2012]], ranked by likelihood that [[Barack Obama]] will likely lose them despite winning them in 2008.  (In 2008 Obama won by a margin of six states.)
+#REDIRECT [[swing state]]
-{| class="wikitable"
-|-
-!State
-!Margin of [[Obama]]'s win in 2008
-!Indicators
-!Electoral Votes in 2012
-|-
-|Indiana
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-|Virginia
-|Elected a Republican governor, [[Bob McDonnell]], in 2009. In the 2010 elections the republican party took the state senate, giving them control over both houses of the legislature
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-|Pennsylvania
-|10.3%
-|Obama's disapproval rating is high: 54%, and [[Republicans]] swept the elections in 2010; also, Obama polled poorly here in 2008 against [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>[http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1327.xml?ReleaseID=1653 Quinnipiac poll done late September 2011]</ref>
-|20
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-|Florida
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-|29
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-|Ohio
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-|18
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-|Wisconsin
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-|10
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-|North Carolina
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-|Nevada
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-|}
-== See also ==
-*[[Presidential Election 2012]]
-*[[Endorsements 2012]]
-== External links ==
-*[http://www.tnr.com/article/the-vital-center/95467/obama-mccain-elections-gop-democrats Analysis of Electoral College and popular vote]
-== References ==
-<references/>
-[[Category:politics]]