Word: battlegrounds
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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...
...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...
...That means no Florida, which Clinton won in 1996, and no battleground states (though a visit to Michigan is on the "possible" list, for reasons illogical). Clinton started Tuesday in Bush-safe Kentucky, on behalf of congressional hopeful Eleanor Jordan, and will spend two days in California - where, barring a Bush landslide, Gore is expected to win - in a get-out-the-vote drive requested by Gov. Gray Davis...