With less than two weeks to go until election day, energy production has emerged as a key issue in the presidential campaign for both President Obama and Governor Romney.

The Manhattan Institute just released the latest in its Issues 2012 series of policy briefs, Oil, Gas and Coal Can Prime the Jobs Pump: Which States Will Benefit?Authored by MI senior fellow Mark Mills and MI research associate Yevgeniy Feyman, the report finds that unleashing our hydrocarbon abundance will create a half-million jobs in the swing states.