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With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Barack Obama has held or increased his lead in four key states won by President Bush in 2004 - Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia - while he has lost ground in West Virginia, according to the latest series of TIME/CNN battleground-state polls conducted by Opinion Research Corp. The polls suggest that the McCain campaign's recent attempts to link the Democratic nominee to former domestic terrorist William Ayers and the liberal organizing group ACORN (which the GOP accuses of perpetrating voter fraud) are not resonating with most voters...
Obama gained the most ground in North Carolina, where he now leads John McCain among likely voters by 51% to 47%, up 4 percentage points from earlier this month, when a similar poll showed the two tied at 49%. In Nevada, Obama expanded his lead to 51% to McCain's 46%, up 1 percentage point from September. Similarly, in the crucial swing state of Ohio, Obama leads the Arizona Senator by a 50% to 46% margin, an increase of 1 percentage point from his lead earlier this month. In Virginia, a state that increasingly looks to be solidly in Obama...
McCain's failure to move the needle in the four key states likely reflects, in part, the fact that his latest attacks on Obama are not having much impact. Although a majority of voters in Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina had heard of Ayers and ACORN, less than one-third of voters said such issues would affect their votes...
...even during the primary season. Similarly, veterans of the campaign trail have taken it upon themselves to organize and motivate large groups of student volunteers to spend hours talking to undecided voters. Before November 4, Harvard College undergraduates will have travelled to battleground states as far away as North Carolina; both the Democratic and Republican communities on campus will have travelled to New Hampshire on almost a weekly basis. Phone banking events have generated a great deal of enthusiasm and interest; similarly, students across campus have tuned into the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates. As the election cycle reaches...
...written to allow each state to set its own testing standards. As a result, states with relatively easy proficiency tests, such as Wisconsin or Mississippi, had few schools that failed to meet testing standards. States that were hardest hit were those with difficult proficiency tests, like South Carolina, where 83 percent of schools failed to meet their targets. The sharp disparity provides further proof that a nationwide benchmark of total proficiency by 2014 is an unworkable deadline. Beyond the inconsistencies and idiocies of the testing regime, schools are also having a hard time reaching mandated proficiency standards because No Child...