Word: margined
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Jesse Helms must be spinning in his grave. Elizabeth Dole, the wife of former GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole, won Helms' North Carolina Senate seat by a comfortable nine-point margin after he vacated it in 2002. Then in 2006, as head of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, Dole managed to hand control of the Senate to Democrats by presiding over a surprise loss of six seats. Now Dole is in danger of losing Helms' seat itself to Democratic State Senator Kay Hagan - and perhaps handing the Democrats a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority in the process...
...Dems boast similar numbers, having knocked on almost 15,000 doors in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania as of yesterday, according to their Web site. New Hampshire voted for Repulibcan George W. Bush in 2000 before flipping to Democrat John F. Kerry in 2004. Both races were decided by a margin of less than 10,000 votes. Members of both clubs said they have been generally well received in New Hampshire and spoke positively about their expectations for tomorrow. “Weeks ago I was canvassing and I felt a little discouraged,” Zafran said...
...Gaylor, who joined the Harvard Republicans upon arriving on campus, said that he was confident that McCain would win the Sunshine State, though by a close margin...
...McCain now finds himself in a position that appears not too dissimilar to Dole's in 1996. Swing state polls suggest that he is sharply behind in several key swing states, his campaign crowds remain less than overwhelming, and Obama has been outspending him on the airwaves by a margin of 3 to 1. Despite a tightening in some local polls, national tracking polls - which the McCain campaign cited as evidence that the race was getting closer - have begun to widen again...
...Obama is leading in Ohio by just three percentage points, within the margin of error, according to the University of Cincinnati's latest Ohio Poll. But only two issues predominate everywhere in Ohio: the economy, and the looming possibility of warfare over election mechanics...