A guide to the swing states.

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• Bless Their Hearts In the battle for a changing Virginia, Democrats may be changing faster than Republicans.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 31, 2008
  
• How Does a Red State Turn Blue? Tagging along with Obama and McCain canvassers in North Carolina.
  Laurel Wamsley Oct. 30, 2008
  
• The Pennsylvania Party As the candidates are discovering, the state's Democrats and Republicans can be hard to tell apart.
  Dennis B. Roddy Oct. 28, 2008
  
• Sweet on Obama He's running away with Ohio's famous cookie poll, but the actual polls aren't so bleak for McCain.
  Rachael Larimore Oct. 28, 2008
  
• Are You a Swing Voter? A Slate interactive calculator.
  Chris Wilson Oct. 27, 2008
  
• Will Obama Crap Out? His ground game could win Nevada, but McCain's still a 13-12 favorite.
  Josh Levin Oct. 22, 2008
  
• Obama vs. McCain vs. Gay Marriage In California, the presidential race is taking a back seat to gay marriage.
  Farhad Manjoo Oct. 15, 2008
  
• It's the Little Things In the New Mexico presidential race, no town is too small to matter.
  Jacob Leibenluft Oct. 13, 2008
  
• Have I Got the Candidate for You! How the real-estate market could turn Florida for Obama.
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 13, 2008
  
• As Goes Omaha … Could Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District swing the presidential election?
  Jacob Leibenluft Oct. 8, 2008
  
• Chinese Democracy Why don't we ever hear about the Asian-American vote?
  Christopher Beam Oct. 1, 2008
  
• So You Think You're a Swing Voter? Think again: It depends on whether you live in a swing state.
  John Dickerson Oct. 1, 2008
  
• Swingers 2008 A guide to the swing states and swing voters.
  Sept. 30, 2008
  
• Don't Take It for Granite Democrats control New Hampshire, but Obama still faces a tough battle here.
  John Swansburg Sept. 29, 2008
  
• The Colorado Purple The state is finally taking a shine to Democrats. But is it blue enough to accept Obama?
  Christopher Beam Sept. 23, 2008