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...Austin, Bush's top advisers say the number of toss-up states has increased in recent weeks - a sign, they insist, of how well their candidate is performing in traditionally Democratic areas. Bush is tied or within striking range not just in West Virginia but also in Oregon, Washington, Iowa and Wisconsin, each of which Democrats have won in the past three presidential elections. And in Tennessee, Gore's home state, and Bill Clinton's Arkansas, polls show the Texas Governor with a slight edge. "Bush is playing all over Gore's map," boasts Bill Paxon, a Bush lieutenant. "That...
...Miami, I would always play backyard football with my friends and the neighborhood kids. The quarterback we imitated most was always a toss-up between Dan Marino and Gino Torretta (you know, the 1992 Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Miami and perhaps one of the best collegiate quarterbacks of the past decade...
...That leaves the candidates with one projected win apiece. And, as each camp is likely painfully aware, the final contest is generally perceived as a toss-up, dependent on anything from the mood of the moderator to the quality of the night's coffee. On October 17, the candidates will meet in St. Louis for a potentially contentious town-hall meeting, where audience members will pose questions to the candidates. It could go either way: If Gore has learned anything about warmth and accessibility from his year of campaigning, he may just confound us with some quick and witty banter...
...White's sonorous mythologizing was overdone, the making of the president 2000 seems ridiculously underdone - the election campaign at times little more than a curiosity, an irritation yammering toward a foregone conclusion. Even the summer's mild suspense (it's a toss-up, we said) is draining out of this one. The race began by raising two fundamental questions: How strange is Gore? How dumb is Bush? There are real policy differences, of course, but personality trumps those. The answer is emerging - the sum of Al's weirdness works out to be less than the sum of W.'s dumbness...
...Advantage: Toss...