The two rivals are equal concerning the national polls.
Their attention is twisted towards
the key-states which can change/recline the balance. Two weeks before the US presidentials, the republican Mitt o!ney got up/ran down with/catched up with his de!ocratic rival "arack #ba!a in the national polls. Thereby, the race for the $hite %ouse changed/ transfor!ed/trans!uted in a veritable sprint for the two co!petitors& the debate which was supposed to take place last night has a great influence in the electoral calculus of the two antagonistic sides. Taken in consideration the poll reali'ed by the daily $all Street (ournal and the )"* )ews channel, #ba!a, the current president, and o!ney are egality/congruency in the electoral choices/preferences, each of the! being credited with +, percent of the votes. The study !ade after the second televised debate showed that the results were !ore cogent/decisive, the de!ocratic candidate winning plainly/ plainly winning it. -revious !ade polls arranged by the sa!e !edia institutions were giving to #ba!a a three-point advantage. Tourna!ents- !arathons The polls are relieving that people.s trust in o!ney is highly increasing, a situation which could lean the balance concerning the independent electorate in his favor/ in his favor, concerning the independent electorate. /s an answer to the new poll nu!bers, the #ba!a tea! ca!paign organi'ed a tourna!ent-!arathon in several key-states where the fate of the 0 )ove!ber election could be decided. 1n only +2 hours, the president #ba!a will participate at electoral !eetings/rallies in si3 key-states, but also in *hicago, his residential city. #n the other front/side, ten thousand volunteers, reactivated by the last polls, filled in for the local headquarters of the epublican -arty to help the ca!paign in the last !inute. The -resident hoped that he will !ake a good !ove at the last of the debates too, centered on the international/e3ternal US politic, a do!ain in which o!ney stu!bled over it, a few ti!es. "ut the /!ericans want a fir!er position of the country towards 1ran and *hina, in tone with the accusations brought by the republicans of the actual ad!inistration/ by the actual ad!inistration.s republicans. "ut on the other hand, #ba!a will re!ind /!ericans at any cost that he gave the eli!ination order of the nu!ber one US. ene!y& #sa!a bin 4anden, the al-5aida leader, and that he too brought back ho!e the troupes/!ilitary troops/troupes fro! 1rak. egardless of the debate.s fate on the e3ternal politic6s7, the analysts assert that the attention will fall back upon the econo!ic politics, the !ain focus of the two candidates. electoral agendas.
Kaufmann, EP, 'Multiculturalism,' Chapter in Singh, Robert (Ed.), Governing America: The Politics of A Divided Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), Pp. 449-66