8 Battleground States May Decide Election
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WASHINGTON - Eight states worth just 99 electoral votes are up for grabs in the closely fought presidential race, with the White House going to whoever conquers this shrinking battlefield.    While another dozen states could come into play if either candidate breaks open the race, President Bush and Democratic Sen...
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Voters in Nevada and South Carolina make their choices on Saturday in a chaotic U.S. presidential race, with polls showing tight struggles in both states as nominating battles move to the South and West.
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Many states are facing legal challenges over possible voting problems Nov. 2. A look at some of the developments Monday:
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Highlights from the eight states that held primaries Tuesday:
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Georgia and Alaska have joined the expanding roster of states that have advanced the dates of their 2008 presidential nominating contests to Feb. 5 Ã¢ÂÂ barely eight months away Ã¢ÂÂ to garner more clout in the selection of the next chief executive.
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A look at three battleground states along the Upper Mississippi River:
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Colorado, New Mexico and Florida are three of the most competitive states in the presidential election. USA TODAY reporters and photographers followed President Bush and Sen. John Kerry as they bounced around those states - and three time zones - Saturday, 10 days before Election Day. Here is a look at their day on the road.
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Eight months, three debates, hundreds of speeches and hundreds of thousands of television ads after it all began, the US presidential race may hinge simply on which side gets out the vote tomorrow.
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It's no secret that Senate Democrats are looking at a target-rich environment in 2008. Open Republican seats in Colorado, Virginia and Nebraska are likely to be seriously contested by Democrats, while Republican incumbents in Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Oregon are also in danger.
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Many states are facing legal challenges over possible voting problems Nov. 2. A look at some of the developments Sunday:
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EYE ON THE ELECTION: Tens of thousands of poll monitors and challengers are expected to crowd precincts in battleground states Tuesday.
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The presidential election may be decided along party lines, but in six states with close races for governor, local concerns prevail.
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WASHINGTON - The presidential candidates are hitting big battleground states again today. President Bush will be on his second bus trip in Florida in four days...
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Voters in 11 states will elect  governors on Nov. 2 in contests that test both the drawing  power of the presidential candidates dominating the ticket and  the down-home strength of the two major parties.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the national front-runner in the eight-person Democratic presidential primary. Yet when it comes to the state-by-state contests that will decide the nomination, the candidates are practically all over the map.
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Wisconsin and Hawaii become the latest battlegrounds in the struggle for the Democratic presidential nominee Tuesday, while Republican Sen. John McCain is looking for victories to finally knock his last remaining major rival out of the race.
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Democrat John Kerry takes his quest for votes to the western states of Nevada and Colorado that polls show could be up for grabs in the presidential contest, as incumbent rival George W. Bush stumps in three eastern battleground states.