Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last desperate efforts on 18 states with 272 electoral votes -- a mere two over the number required for victory -- in which he still had a chance. The reports were denied, but not very convincingly. One poll taken immediately after the debate placed Dukakis 17 points behind Bush, a margin that would be insurmountable in the short time left. Speculation turned to the possibility of a Bush landslide -- and the fourth Democratic disaster in the past five elections...
...campaign's vital signs showed a continuing heartbeat and respiration. Dukakis was at last electioneering with something approaching passion, and winning favorable TV and press attention. A new spate of polls showed that Bush's lead had settled back to between 7 and 10 points, about the margin before the debate. This late in the game, that is a daunting but not quite hopeless deficit. Reasonably objective observers, some of them Republican, reached the same conclusion: Dukakis can still come back, and he even has a longshot chance...
After the union won the right to represent the support staff in collective bargaining by a narrow 44-vote margin, the University challenged the election, claiming that HUCTW organizers were guilty of illegal electioneering on election...
...keeping with what sources said were private soundings taken for the two candidates. Only 35 percent of those reponding to the public survey said they were pleased with their choices, and 61 percent said they wished other candidates were running. The survey, of 1285 likely voters, had a margin of error of three percentage points...
Because the union won the spring election by anarrow margin of less than one percent of the 3400support staff, swing votes--which are the easiestvotes to lose--were key to the victory. Laborexperts say that unions often lose strength duringlegal delays, because uncertain voters changetheir minds...