Should liberals vote for Obama?  We need a liberalism that
engages as well as spectates - without power, there is no
change.  Barack Obama. Photograph: Getty Images With the effect
of Mitt Romney's comment about 47 per cent of Americans now
being felt in the national polls (it doesn't look good), with
the economy adding 386,000 more jobs than originally thought
between March 2011 and March 2012, and with early voting
beginning into battleground states, things are looking very good
for President Barack Obama's chances at a second term in office.
The Associated Press based its analysis of how things stand on
polls, TV ads, and interviews with campaign officials and
concluded that: "If the election were held today, an Associated
Press analysis shows Obama would win at least 271 electoral
votes, with likely victories in crucial Ohio and Iowa along with
19 other states and the District of Columbia. Romney would win
23 states for a total of 206."  In other words, you need 270
electoral votes to win, and Obama seem