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May 17, 2012

Will Europe Decide the U.S. Election?

Andy Sullivan & Peter Apps, Reuters

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Manufacturing growth, surging exports: These are central promises of Obama's reelection bid, especially in blue-collar industrial states that could determine the election.

 

Mindful of the Indiana surprise of 2008, when a spike in unemployment helped Obama win the reliably Republican state, the White House has every reason to fear payback in states like Ohio, this time from any deepening of Europe's financial crisis.

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TAGGED: United States, Barack Obama, Europe, Mitt Romney, Eurozone, 2012

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