Word: battleground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hampshire and Maine are as battleground as they come," said Republican Club President Jason A. Brinton '02. "Both states are within the margin-of-error...
...states are still up for grabs--and the Gore campaign's internal polling shows they are only behind by 1 point nationwide and within the margin of error in enough battleground states to pull out the election...
Like students with midterm papers due the next day, the presidential campaigns are getting desperate. Harvard students don't often watch television; even if we did, Massachusetts isn't a battleground state. But in swing states, the Democratic and Republican National Committees are exhibiting deadline behavior...
...venue was a dreary hotel conference room in lower Manhattan, preaching to the saved, and not a battleground state, appealing to the undecided. Too bad Al Gore has put his party's most potent weapon in a lockbox. Too bad for Democrats there's a 22nd Amendment that keeps Clinton from running again. In a speech after the debates, Clinton gave a far more lucid rebuttal than Gore--and without the sighing. His job-approval rating surpasses Ronald Reagan's in his final days...
...Turns out I packed up and moved to New York City too soon. In its final days, this year's presidential campaign finally got good - which is to say it got bad. In battleground states like Michigan and Florida, with presidential and local contests tight as pre-washed jeans, campaigns and interest groups flooded radio and TV with ads and filled voters' answering machines with celebrity-voiced automated phone calls. And the best part was that they went negative, big time...