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With only one day to go before the election, the race for the presidency between Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush will by decided by the outcome in 13 currently deadlocked swing states...
...past few days, both candidates have traveled frenetically to and from the swing states--Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Maine, Missouri, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota and New Mexico--in a last-minute effort to shore up traditional constituencies and appeal to undecided voters...
With the race so tight, both parties have spent millions in extensive get-out-the-vote efforts that might be the deciding factor in some key swing states...
Gore must also contend with another potential trouble spot--Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. Nader is running at 4 percent nationally, and could draw away enough liberal-minded voters from Gore to give Bush crucial victories in enough swing states to win the election...
Like students with midterm papers due the next day, the presidential campaigns are getting desperate. Harvard students don't often watch television; even if we did, Massachusetts isn't a battleground state. But in swing states, the Democratic and Republican National Committees are exhibiting deadline behavior...