Word: battleground
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...money or to "free media" generated by a campaign visit. When Gore's top advisers confer each morning about where to spend their ad dollars, where to dispatch the candidate and which ground operations need bolstering, the map--along with twice weekly polls and focus groups in battleground states--is one of their crucial tools...
...sick of this election. I don't care about battleground states, likability polls or what those undecided people on NBC think after debates. These are people who signed up to tell America they don't have anything to say. And as soon as they decide, they get kicked off the panel. It's like Idiot Survivor...
...government fears more outbursts of violence from both sides of the religious divide--meaning Israel itself could be turned into a real battleground. Television stations did not broadcast the full footage of two Israeli soldiers being lynched by Palestinians in the West Bank, out of concern that it would prompt reprisals against Israeli Arabs. "It's a very, very ugly situation," says Bishara. "Here, in this democracy, you have to fear for your life because of your ethnicity...
...lion's share of them, 41 percent, undecided. They left with 53 percent of the room for the vice president. The Gore staff felt so good about its candidate's performance in the debate that it wants to pour precious advertising dollars into rebroadcasting it on cable channels in battleground states...
...self-styled New Democrat, he had some of the Midwestern twang and even a bit of the look of Harry Truman, who once held the Senate seat Carnahan was seeking. His death not only cut short his career but dimmed Democratic hopes. Al Gore's shot at carrying this battleground state is weakened now. So are the Democrats' chances of taking control of the Senate. Ironically, they had that opportunity only because two G.O.P. Senators - Georgia's Paul Coverdell and Rhode Island's John Chaffee - died unexpectedly while in office. Carnahan's death would seem to all but guarantee...