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It's all in the states

Two Trouble Spots for Bush: Iraq and the Philly Suburbs (washingtonpost.com)

Boy, do I want this Electoral College systems to come to an end - but in the meantime, the battle is all in a few key states and in at least one big one, Kerry is winning. I'm talking about Pennsylvania. Here's the key paragraph from this Washington Post analysis:

It is voters like Liss who are responsible for the small lead Kerry enjoyed in three independent Pennsylvania polls released this week. The most highly regarded of the trio, Franklin and Marshall College's Keystone Poll, put the Massachusetts senator ahead 49 percent to 43 percent, reversing a statistically insignificant lead Bush had a month earlier.