Word: battleground
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...votes of the South and West. But this year Michael Dukakis and George Bush start from a near standoff in the number of electoral votes represented by states solidly for them or leaning their way. So the election seems likely to be won (or lost) in a handful of battleground states, especially the Big Three of Texas, Illinois and California. Together they cast 100 electoral votes, or 37% of the total needed for victory. It is difficult to see how either candidate can gain the White House without winning at least two. And in all three, the race opens...
...Quayle really hurts Bush with these people. They are macho, patriotic people who are working really hard to send their kids to college," qualities they do not associate with Bush's running mate. In Illinois as a whole, nobody would dispute Democrat Murphy's summation, "This is a battleground state, and it is going to be close...
With Bush creating sideshows and Dukakis muting issues, neither gains consistent support. -- Three battleground states -- Texas, Illinois and California -- hold 100 potentially decisive electoral votes. -- Despite rhetoric, the candidates fail to see inadequate schools as a national- security threat. -- The U. S. backs a cashiered Panamanian colonel seeking a coup against Noriega...
Even with its charming "postage-stamp" hole, aced by Gene Sarazen at the age of 71, Troon is more distant, dim, vague, gray, dreamy and melancholy, much closer to the mind's impression of moors and mires. It resembles a battleground that is really a testing ground, bumpy and full of bad breaks. Like youth, the longest shots start to go a little awry, until, like hope, they disappear entirely into the darkness of the day. "Unrecoverable," say the caddies without irony, over and over. "Unrecoverable." On the moonlit night, the golf-course hotel might be Baskerville Hall. From...
...FROM KENSINGTON by Muriel Spark (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95). A beguiling widow's fictional progress over two familiar Spark terrains: the London publishing world and the battleground between innocence and corruption...