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A ferocious roar rang out as each battleground state fell.
"In each battleground state, we are recruiting thousands of attorney volunteers to help recruit, train, educate and observe at polling locations," the Obama campaign said in a statement.
This is expressed in the chart below, which compares the current FiveThirtyEight "now-cast" in each battleground state (our snapshot of what would happen in an election held today) against those of three of our competitors, RealClearPolitics, HuffPost Pollster and Talking Points Memo.
For each battleground state every week, the campaign's call centers conducted 5,000 to 10,000 so-called short-form interviews that quickly gauged a voter's preferences, and 1,000 interviews in a long-form version that was more like a traditional poll.
The new technique, developed by Stanford University Professor Simon Jackman, builds on the model that we used to track the 2012 presidential election, which combined national and statewide data to estimate the standing in each battleground state.
Although it is true that blacks and Latinos make up formidable voting blocs and should be rallied for in every state, it is a strategic mistake for the Clinton-Kaine ticket to ignore potential sizable voting enclaves waiting in plain sight in each battleground state.
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"We knew that whatever landscape we needed we would have to control completely," he said, "because we were blowing it up," not just once, but repeatedly: each island battleground had its own look (the black sand of Iwo Jima being particularly famous), so each required the beach on Australia's northeast coast where the crew was working to get a makeover.
In the long run the principle of popular sovereignty proved to be most unsatisfactory of all, making each territory a battleground where the supporters of the South contended with the defenders of the North and West.
Unions need to be at the table in each of the battleground states in a very big way.
Likewise, VoteCastr will have 100 poll watchers in each of seven battleground states to update turnout numbers every hour throughout the day Tuesday.
Like the singing contestants on The Voice, who must face each other in "Battleground Contests," President Obama will be confronting Mitt Romney again onstage tonight at their last debate.
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