Sentence examples for critical states from inspiring English sources

Tapping into antitrade feelings in critical states during the campaign, he had criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement.

He steered money into critical states that helped win the election.

And some politically critical states have already reported that unemployment has broken 10percentt.

On Thursday, that story was one of President Obama continuing to hold leads in most polls of critical states.

Both Florida and California, two critical states in the presidential elections, have a large number of immigrants, many of whom would benefit from the immigration provisions.

The various networks are predicting that Obama has taken the critical states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, which is a huge deal.

It was Mr. Nader, they say, who drained votes away from Mr. Gore in critical states like Florida and New Hampshire, throwing the White House to Mr. Bush.

But presidential elections are not decided by the national popular vote; they are won state by state, and polls in critical states have varied widely.

And results were depressed by a shift in a tax-free sales week to August in two critical states, Florida and Texas, which analysts say helped delay shopping.

It may prove telling that Mr. Bush, the Republican nominee, won the student vote in the critical states of California, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Mr. Obama has outgunned Mr. Romney in advertising in critical states and it is too early to know if the polls will change in a sustained way.