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The Swing State Project
11:37 am
Fri February 3, 2012
Battered By The Bust, Nevada Voters Search For Slivers Of Hope
By Liz Halloran
Credit Becky Lettenberger / NPR
Las Vegas resident Jillian Batchelor, 29, voted for Obama in 2008 but says now, "I'm voting Republican all the way this time."
The brutal recession has wracked Nevada, where soaring unemployment and foreclosure numbers tell the story of the state's misery. But its importance as a swing state in the 2012 presidential contest has only been enhanced in the four years since it went for Democrat Barack Obama.
