Word: battleground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ohio. Instead, concentrate on picking off New Mexico, Nevada, Iowa and maybe Colorado from Bush's swag in 2004; hold on to the states that went for Kerry; and you're over the top. As of this weekend, the polls had Obama ahead in all four of Moore's battleground states (the Nevada race is the closest). Moore couldn't have anticipated that Obama would benefit from banking chaos - but he does address, on the book's first page, the personal-credit crisis, which he sees as our citizens' response to Bush's call to defeat the terrorists by going...
...despite that fact, activists from both sides have remained energetic in the days leading up to the election—particularly those from battleground states who feel that their efforts might have an outsized influence on the outcome of the election...
...Though she agreed with Riether that Pennsylvania’s position as a battleground state adds to the excitement because her vote “has a lot of weight to it,” she says she thinks interest may have peaked during the Democratic primary...
...Though she convinced the Dems to travel to Pennsylvania’s 8th district for one of their weekly canvassing trips, Sikora has resigned herself to just hearing about the battleground state excitement from the deeply-blue Massachusetts...
...That leaves the "battleground state" with only three true battlegrounds...