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...blue on this map fool you: George W. Bush may have a nationwide lead, but he has not locked up the states that will decide the election. Bush is doing best in the West and the Deep South. But Gore has New York and California, which have three more electoral votes than all the Bush states west of the 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...
TIME.com For an interactive, up-to-the-minute map of polls in key states, go to time.com/Campaign2000
ERIC CHASE ANDERSON may be called a political cartographer. That's how best to describe someone who wandered through Carthage, Tenn., sketching Al Gore's hometown and interviewing his boyhood friends. The result is, as he puts it, "a memoir in the shape of a map." It's part geography, part story--a concept he created two years ago when he drew a map for his family at Christmas. That one was a tribute to his stepmother's minivan. The gift was a big hit, and he's been mapping ever since...
...Barak showed up with a headful of new ideas on how to resolve thorny issues like boundaries for a new Palestinian state and the number of Palestinian refugees allowed to return to their homes, Arafat spent the first four days delivering monologues. When he wouldn't look at a map Barak had drawn with new boundaries, Clinton finally blew up. "This is ridiculous!" the President shouted. "This is not the way to negotiate. If you insist on stonewalling, this is going to go nowhere...
...then the opposition was morphing from inchoate splinter groups into something that looks like a mainstream coalition. In July 1999, some 40 environmentalists, consumer advocates and organic-food activists met in Bolinas, Calif., to map a national campaign. Rather than endorse the total ban on genetically modified foods that Greenpeace was pushing, says Wendy Wendlandt, political director of the state Public Interest Research Groups, "it was more practical to call for a moratorium until the stuff is safety tested and labeled, and companies are held responsible for any harmful effects...