Swing vote

Last week I watched a movie called Swing Vote. I have never heard about it before but I really liked it. It was released in the US last year before election but it was not in the german movie theatres. You should watch the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWodSDYgfXA, read the plot summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Vote_(2008_film) or even watch the whole movie because it is really funny and still has a lot of messages for the people. It encourages people to vote and to speak up.
It is not that realistic situation to have one person's vote which decides who will become the next president but there is that great message to it that every vote counts and can change something. I think that it was an important movie for the people in the US who do not vote.
Another point was also great. The Republican president and the Democratic candidate tried so hard to get this one vote that they started a whole campaign for this guy Bud. They watched him the whole day and every thing Bud did or said was taken into their TV ads and finally the two candidates even changed their polities. The President was suddenly for gay marriage and the Democratic candidate was against abortion. However, they noticed themselves that it is not worth giving up their own beliefs. It is an open end because we do not know who Bud will vote for...

This is a definition for Swing vote. I think it is interesting to know that.

Swing vote is a term used to describe a vote that may go to any of a number of candidates in an election, or, in a two-party system, may go to either of the two dominant political parties. Such votes are usually sought after in elections, since they can play a big role in determining the outcome.
A swing voter or floating voter is a voter who may not be affiliated with a particular political party (Independent) or who will vote across party lines. In American politics, many centrists, liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats are considered "swing voters" since their voting patterns cannot be predicted with certainty.
While the swing voter is ostensibly the target of most political activity during elections, in countries without compulsory voting the political parties know that the shift from one party to another is dependent only to a limited extent on swing voters. Another, arguably larger factor is the success of one party in comparison to another in getting out its core support. In a two-party system, those who become disillusioned with their favored party are more likely to vote third-party or abstain than cross over.
A swing state (also, battleground state or purple state) in United States presidential politics is a state in which no candidate has overwhelming support, meaning that any of the major candidates have a reasonable chance of winning the state's electoral college votes. Such states are targets of both major political parties in presidential elections, since winning these states is the best opportunity for a party to gain electoral votes. Non-swing states are sometimes called safe states, because one candidate has strong enough support that they can safely assume they will win the state's votes.
( These information are from wikipedia.com)