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Thursday, September 23, 2004

# Posted 1:09 AM by Ariel David Adesnik  

NEO-SWING STATES: Why are Wisconsin and Minnesota now up for grabs? TNR explains. And why does it matter? Because,
Even if Bush loses Wisconsin and Minnesota this year, just being competitive is enough to significantly tilt the balance of power in a presidential election. "Every day that Al Gore and Joe Lieberman were in Minnesota, they weren't in Florida," the then-mayor of St. Paul, Norm Coleman, proclaimed to a crowd in 2000. This year, it's the same story--while Kerry was spending time with farmers in rural Wisconsin and unemployed Iron Belt factory workers in northern Minnesota, he wasn't in any of the other swing states he desperately needs to capture.

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