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538's Battlegrounds as of Mid-August
fivethirtyeight.com - 8/18/2008
538's Battlegrounds as of Mid-August
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Our final deep breath before the VP picks and the conventions is a good time to do the monthly update of battleground states according to our projection model. Mid-September's will come between the conventions and the debates, and mid-October's will come after we know the polling effects from the debate series. The last month has seen a nearly across-the-board uptick for John McCain. That's ...

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Midday open thread
Daily Kos — ... Speaking of Nate, he has his latest list of "battleground states", ordered from tightest to widest gaps. These are pretty much the states Nate considers tossups: Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, Nevada, Montana, Michigan, New Hampshire, Missouri, Florida, New Mexico, Iowa, and North Carolina. ...

Required Reading: McGain!
Weekly Standard Blog — From 538.com, “538’s Battlegrounds as of Mid-August” by Sean I’ve mentioned 538.com in the past, but here’s a timely reminder. It is without question the best site for poll analysis on the internet. If you like following the presidential horserace (and who doesn’t?), it should be a daily stop. This article on the battleground states came out a few days ago. Mea culpa for taking so long to link to it: The last month has seen a nearly across-the-board uptick for John McCain. That's his good news. The good news for Barack ...

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