Click "About" to learn why it's important to GET OUT THE VOTE for Obama in Lakewood! We've all heard how OHIO is the key swing state for the presidential election, but why? PoliticalTicker.Blogs.cnn.com reports that "Barack Obama picked up states that George W Bush carried in ‘04. If Obama holds Ohio, he can lose the other 8 and still be re-elected. So the stakes in Ohio are enormous," said Begala
, who's also a senior adviser to Priorities USA and Priorities USA Action, two independent groups launched earlier his year to support Obama's re-election bid. Democrats in Lakewood have to turn out the vote for President Obama to help guarantee a victory in Cuyahoga county. It's a numbers game - it's important that all democrats and Obama supporters exercise their right to vote. In Cuyahoga county, our population decreased 8.2% from 2000 to 2010. Voter turnout was 23% in 2010 compared to 2008. Ohio GOP chair said "Democrat stronghold Cuyahoga County gave John McCain more votes than seven separate states." According to PolitiFact.com, the last amended 2008 general election results on file with the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections shows that McCain received 199,880, or about 30 percent. Democrat Barack Obama received 458,422 votes. To put that in perspective, Obama carried these four states, shown here with McCain’s vote totals:
• Vermont (98,974 votes)
• Hawaii (120,566)
• Delaware (152,374)
• Rhode Island (165,391)
McCain carried three of the states with fewer votes than he got in Cuyahoga County:
• Wyoming (164,958 votes)
• North Dakota (168,601)
• Alaska (193,841)
The county’s population in the 2010 census of 1,280,122 makes it more populous than six of the seven states in the comparison. Only Hawaii, which has 1,360,301 residents, is bigger. Wyoming is the smallest with 563,626 residents. Do you see why Cuyahoga County offers so much? And why it's important to get out the vote in the highly democratic city of Lakewood. Join us today! www.barackobama.com/volunteer
