Health & Fitness
Iowa Is IN The Big Nine...Which Is Not A College Football Reference
Iowa is one of nine states that will decide the next presidential election.
GOP strategists will be focusing on "the big nine" in 2012--which includes Iowa.
...it’s about the nine states that George W. Bush won in 2004 but flipped over to Barack Obama in 2008. The states: Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia. These are the purplest of the purple — the true battlegrounds for 2012. Other states may well come into play, but one thing is certain — if the Republicans do not win at least seven of these nine states, we do not win back the White House.
Incidentally, Iowa and Florida are the only states of these nine in which President Obama's approval rating is higher than his disapproval rating. That's not much of a margin of error. If the Republican nominee loses these two states, the nominee must run the table in the other seven.
That's a lot of resources concentrated in just a handful of states. (h/t The Campaign Spot).