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...Mississippi. So the most important territory is the Midwest, where Bush's lead tends to fall within the margin of error. Bush is targeting several other states in the South and the Northwest that have voted for Clinton but have yet to embrace Gore. For Gore, winning the battleground states means solidifying his base--especially union voters considering Ralph Nader--and attracting moderates. Gore has a shot: some polls estimate as many as half the voters are undecided...
...when Al Gore and his traveling band of populists had finished partying like movie stars and left L.A. to find some working-class people who had the good sense to live in a battleground state, I decided to do some California mingling for them - at the In-N-Out Burger on Gayley, off Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood...
...when Al Gore and his traveling band of populists had finished partying like movie stars and left L.A. to find some working-class people who had the good sense to live in a battleground state, I decided to do some California mingling for them - at the In-N-Out Burger on Gayley, off Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood...
...historic economic expansion and vastly improved social indicators are blue-chip arguments for a Gore presidency--and they refute Bush's version of the recent past. In other words, the rematch isn't going away. Just to keep the rivalry humming, Gore plans to send Clinton to campaign in battleground states in the fall. Poppy Bush will be spending a dozen or so days on the stump as well. The two old warriors will be criss-crossing the country once more, whipping up their voters and taking the occasional shot at each other. Seems like old times...
...highway, a parking lot, four more fences and hundred of police, was a fenced-in enclosure dubbed "the protest pit" by demonstrators. The police had planned to control demonstrators by giving them pit-time in 50-minute blocks. Media reports before had predicted the area would be the main battleground for the week's protests, the focal point of protest...