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Much has been made this election of the "undetected" voter, from new voters to cell-phone voters. But there is another undetected voting block that will make a crucial impact on this election: Serbian-Americans. There are up to two million Serbian-Americans, about a million of them registered voters. It is estimated that two-thirds of them are concentrated in seven battleground states: in Ohio (esp. Cleveland), Wisconsin (Milwaukee), Florida, Missouri (St. Louis), Pennsylvania, Michigan (Detroit), and New Jersey. In the past they had been split along party lines, with a slight majority favoring Democrats. Not this year. Thanks to a “get-out-the-vote” campaign...

There is a bloc of voters that may easily decide the forthcoming election. A little over a million Serbian-Americans—their exact number is uncertain but this is a conservative estimate—are likely to vote this year in greater numbers than ever before. The significance of this group becomes obvious if we look at its geographic distribution. After Chicago, the main Serbian-American centers are Pittsburgh, PA; Cleveland, OH; and Milwaukee, WI. There are thousands of retirees in Florida and sizeable pockets in St. Louis (MO) and suburban New Jersey. In each of those states the size of the community exceeds the likely margin...