Now that the season is in full swing the main event is a big purple cube that creates low-gravity zones and zaps people: cool, but hard to make heads or tails of it.
"Housing is the main swing factor," says Jan Hatzius, an economist at Goldman Sachs.
The old are a critical block in at least two of the main swing states: Florida and Pennsylvania.
The Bellwether: Oakland County The other main swing county in Michigan is Oakland County, where Mr. Romney grew up.
Among the main swing states, only Ohio, Florida and Missouri require the parties to register poll watchers before Election Day; elsewhere, party observers can register on the day itself.
Exploring relations between patterns of peak rotational speed of thorax, pelvis and arm, and patterns of EMG signals recorded from eight muscle regions of forearms and shoulders during the golf swing is the main objective of this article.
They include a few Democratic-leaning spots—some Washington suburbs, and the cities of Richmond, Norfolk and Hampton as well as the main swing counties: Loudoun and Prince William near Washington, Henrico outside Richmond and Chesapeake near the coast.These parts of Virginia are much more diverse, with sizeable Hispanic and Asian populations, as well as many blacks.
European Union and IMF negotiators, tasked with rescuing the Greek economy, flew into Athens this week to find a public-sector stoppage in full swing, with the main union seeking a reversal of all austerity measures.In Romania, too, public-sector unions are up in arms over spending cuts that were decreed under a bail-out agreed with the IMF and EU.
The main swing rightwards has been among males, the old and, perhaps inevitably, Republicans.A plurality also think that politics in general has moved to the right over the past decade; and so, they reckon, has the Republican Party, which has gradually increased its hold over national politics during that period.
