Word: battleground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mexico and Iowa, appear to have moved safely into the Obama column. In recent days, party leaders in Florida and Virginia have voiced their concern about the trajectory of the race in their states, while Michigan activists voiced bewilderment and frustration that McCain was already giving up on the battleground state...
With both national and battleground-state polls showing John McCain losing ground to Barack Obama in recent weeks, the Republican presidential nominee is getting a lot of unsolicited advice. Party professionals around the country are publicly calling on McCain to change the subject from the nation's faltering economy by becoming much more aggressive in his attacks against Obama. Go after the Illinois Senator on his ties to his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, some urge, or attack Obama's associations with convicted Chicago real estate developer Tony Rezko or former '60s radical Bill Ayers...
...their convention, Obama now enjoys the support of registered voters by a 51% to 45% margin; in late August McCain led that group by a difference of 49% to 44%. Among likely voters in the state, which TIME/CNN polled for the first time as part of this series of battleground polls, Obama leads...
...Obama spend the better part of the summer trying to make this race into a 20- [to] 25-state battleground, but he's reined this in a little bit to 11 or 12 states, and potentially less, closer to Election Day," says Evan Tracey, president of TNS's Media Intelligence Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks campaign advertising. "It's all about Ohio, and after that, the other areas are a hedge...
...with a tight race likely to be decided by the results in about a half dozen battleground states that will be invaded by the candidates for the next six weeks, a cohesive, vibrant road show can grab headlines and generate real thrills. Whether or not McCain can pull off a victory in November, Sarah Palin at least will have accomplished that...