Word: battlegrounds
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...shadow over Missouri politics for a generation. They've won nine statewide races between them. But the contest is more than a Show Me state battle. Missouri is a microcosm: it has picked the winner in every presidential election this century except one ('56), and is an important battleground in the tight presidential race...
...Washington state. Of course, these protests are mostly an opportunistic effort by the tribe's supporters to take advantage of the election-year vulnerability of Occidental's most famous investor (and the fate of the U'wa is unlikely to weigh heavily on the minds of swing voters in battleground states), but they do smudge Gore's efforts to project himself as a friend of the Earth. So much so, in fact, that the Gore campaign is at pains to point out that the Gore family holdings in Occidental Petroleum (worth upward of $500,000) are the property...
...strongly against that. Gore holds a two-to-one lead in California and New York, two of the big four electoral prizes. Texas is Bush country. But if Bush does not win Florida, with its 25 electoral votes, he will have to make a clean sweep of the battleground states in the Midwest to win. And if he's not winning over the moderate voters of Florida, he may not grab the moderate voters of Missouri or Pennsylvania...
...diverse as America, and thus, the perfect sunny battleground state...
...ever heard of the White House intern. But the ad tested so well with focus groups that, according to two officials, the campaign is thinking of just putting some dates on the screen so that no one can accuse the G.O.P. of misleading voters, and running it in battleground states anyway. But a top aide to Bush insisted to TIME that the rumors of its resurrection are "not true...