From these three battleground groups, we mix and match to come up with our four scenarios: Best Case McCain, Realistic, Best Case Obama, and (just for the fun of it) Landslide Obama.
* "Battleground Texas" group aims to mobilize non-voters.
Among her champions was Battleground Texas, a group run by former Obama campaign organizers, and a coalition of national Democrats trying to turn Texas blue.
A key battleground for environmental groups is the issue of dredging near the reef.
But California has no Midwestern Democrats in its legislature, as well as a history of smog and a minuscule domestic auto manufacturing base, so it has become a much more solicitous regulatory battleground for environmental groups, many of which are based in the state.
The accuracy of those forecasts will be decided by voters in a handful of key battlegrounds, a diverse group of states that includes, Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Colorado.
As we reported earlier, Georgia's race is quite the battleground for outside groups, and features a Democratic newcomer who has raised a historic amount of money.
During Pakistan's last sustained bout of sectarian violence, in the 1990s, the streets of Karachi became a proxy battleground between Sunni militant groups supported by Saudi Arabia and Shiite groups that had assistance from Iran.
"We had the big-three group of battleground states — Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
