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    <title>Slate Magazine - Swingers</title>
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    <description>A guide to the swing states.</description>
    <copyright>2008 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC</copyright>
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  <title>In the battle for a changing Virginia, Democrats may be changing faster than Republicans.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Standing outside the stunning beaux-arts lobby of Richmond's legendary Jefferson Hotel in August, I struck up a conversation with a woman who—noticing my not-from-here accent—offered what she described as the golden rule of talking like a Virginian. In her 50s or 60s, impeccably dressed, and racing to make a dinner reservation at one of the tony restaurants in the city's historic Shockoe Slip, she patiently explained: "If you want to sound like a real Virginian, you just say, 'Bless your heart' after every single sentence. Doesn't matter how mean it is! You just turn to your hairdresser and say, 'I hate this goddamn, stupid haircut, bless your heart,' and you're from Virginia!"<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2203423/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Dahlia Lithwick</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:16:59 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Tagging along with Obama and McCain canvassers in North Carolina.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  CHARLOTTE, N.C.—North Carolina is certainly not a bellwether state. At the same time, it is almost certainly true that if Barack Obama wins North Carolina, he will win the presidency. A blue Carolina—the polls close at 7:30 p.m. ET, so we should know fairly soon on Tuesday—could precede a blue Missouri, Colorado, and Nevada. And while an Obama victory would be historic for the United States, it would be even more momentous for North Carolina.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2203344/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Laurel Wamsley</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:36:36 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Swingers 2008: A guide to the swing states and swing voters.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Between now and Election Day, Slate writers are surveying the geography and demography of the states and voters that will decide this year's presidential election. Colorado is becoming more Democratic—will it enough to help Obama? Can McCain take back New Hampshire, which voted for Kerry, and hang on to Ohio, the state that put President Bush over the top in 2004?  We'll also examine the differences between a swing voter and a swing state, and profile some voting blocs that could prove pivotal.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2201282/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:50:09 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>As McCain and Obama are discovering, Pennsylvania's Democrats and Republicans can be hard to tell apart.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  BEAVER, Pa.—Pennsylvania is more a nation than a state, less a state than a confederation. Political science is wasted on the place because, just when the numbers are in and the formulas calculated, truculent locals do what they want in spite of themselves.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2203242/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3038" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3038" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Dennis B. Roddy</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:25:54 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>He's running away with Ohio's famous cookie poll, but the actual polls aren't so bleak for McCain.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  John McCain is in big trouble in Ohio. It's not just that the poll-tracking sites show Barack Obama ahead, with leads of five to six points, after averaging the various polls. In a less scientific but historically accurate indicator—which has correctly predicted the winner of Ohio's electoral votes the past six elections—McCain is also getting thumped in the . Busken is a family-run bakery in Cincinnati, and every election since 1984, it has sold iced cookies bearing images of the presidential candidates' faces. As of today, Obama is outselling McCain at Busken's 19 stores by a cookie margin of more than 2-to-1.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2203241/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Rachael Larimore</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:58:57 EST</pubDate>
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