Word: tossups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the Dukakis campaign sought to characterize California, with its 47 electoral votes, as a tossup based on their internal polling, a new ABC News poll put Bush ahead, 51 percent to 44 percent. The poll of 510 likely voters was conducted Saturday and Sunday...
...candidates renewed campaign hostilities as their aides waited for the impact of Sunday night's nationally televised debate to show up in the close race for the White House. The first polls rated the 90-minute confrontation a tossup...
...playing hockey," White says. "It's a tossup. I'll probably have to get serious soon...
...Hunt led Helms in statewide public opinion polls by as much as 19 percentage points. Thirteen months later, a September Gallup Poll showed Helms leading Hunt by four points, a 23-point reversal. Today, with less than a week to go before the election, the race is a tossup, with Helms showing a slight, statistically insignificant lead. Even in Wilson, the governor's home county in eastern North Carolina, a local newpaper poll shows Helms leading Hunt, 46 to 42 percent. But the poll's 4.5 percent margin of error makes the race a dead heat...
...here. Atkins has his work cut out for him," said Duke Juknovarian, chairman of the Lowell Democratic Committee, which four years ago adopted a policy of not endorsing candidates in the primary. In my 40 years in politics, I've never seen a fight like this. It's a tossup for the district...