Canadians may decide U.S. election
They don’t see eye to eye on much when it comes to U.S. politics, but the respective leaders of Democrats Abroad Canada and Republicans Abroad Canada do agree about one thing as the estimated one million U.S. citizens living in this country await the outcome of next week’s presidential election: the race for the White House could well be decided by voters in Canada.
With Barack Obama and Mitt Romney now focusing their campaigns on about 10 swing states widely expected to determine who wins the Nov. 6 election, Canada’s top Democrat, Allenna Leonard — a 69-year-old cybernetics consultant from Toronto — and her 44-year-old Republican counterpart Mark Feigenbaum, a Toronto tax lawyer, both say absentee ballots from Canada and elsewhere around the world could prove pivotal in key battlegrounds such as Ohio, Florida and Virginia.
And with polls showing the presidential race in those states — and about seven others — are too close to call, and with many experts predicting the Obama-Romney sprint for the Oval Office will come down to a photo finish, a few thousand or even a few hundred mail-in votes from abroad to certain parts of the U.S. could make all the difference.
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Canadians+decide+election/7466698/story.html#ixzz2AkOcrBz0
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They definitely need to be mobilized if so. 