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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 GOP Looks for a Winner in Midwest Swing States Mitt Romney's Perceived Home-Field Advantage Contrasts With Gov. Perry's Record of Job Creation in Texas BY JOSEPH B. WHITE AND NEIL KING, JR. MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich.—Republican Party officials and activists in Midwestern states say a GOP candidate can reverse President Barack Obama's 2008 victories in the region. But they're still trying to determine who has the best shot. Mitt Romney, a Michigan native and son of a former Michigan governor, has a home-field advantage and a feel for Midwestern political culture that some party officials say they prefer....

The feds claim that Arizona oversteps its bounds because its law "pursues only one goal--'attrition' "--at the expense of others, such as concentrating enforcement on the most dangerous aliens, protecting the rights of asylum seekers, and maintaining amity with Mexico and other foreign countries. The real issue in this case is not whether the federal government has the power to pre-empt Arizona's immigration law, as it asserts in the lawsuit. It unquestionably does. The question is whether Washington has properly exercised that power.