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- noun Plural form of
battleground .
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Examples
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Labor organizers will begin two weeks of one-on-one conversations with voters in such midterm battlegrounds as Nevada and California, where Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) face tough reelection challenges.
Labor unions pivot toward midterm elections with jobs campaign 2010
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House Districts they identified as battlegrounds (60 Democrats and 10 Republicans).
Brain Shavings 2010
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Morillo noted 14 states have proposed similar legislation, including such midterm battlegrounds as Pennsylvania, Colorado, Missouri and Ohio.
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Competing in battlegrounds rewards the edition with tokens and honor points that can be hardened to swill armour and weapons. [
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Bit the bullet. The vBulletin that is. 2009
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Mr. Obama is getting support from white liberal talk radio hosts as well, but the backing he is getting from black radio hosts could be especially helpful to his campaign’s efforts to increase black turnout and raise historically low voter registration enough to change the math of presidential elections in battlegrounds and traditionally Republican states like this one.
The Early Word: Coming (Back) to America - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Mr. Obama is getting support from white liberal talk radio hosts as well, but the backing he is getting from black radio hosts could be especially helpful to his campaign’s efforts to increase black turnout and raise historically low voter registration enough to change the math of presidential elections in battlegrounds and traditionally Republican states like this one.
The Early Word: Coming (Back) to America - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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When I said the schools are cultural and religious battlegrounds, that is just a fact.
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Yet this overall trend -- Democrats up, Republicans down -- is also mirrored in many of the states that already have been identified as battlegrounds for 2008.
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The battlegrounds will be the Mountain West and the Midwest, and Romney should help with the former, and thus McCain can focus on the "Hillary Midwest".
By request: the McCain VP open thread. Ann Althouse 2008
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Where Mr. Edwards 'non – New England, easygoing, nice-guy, I'm-from-working-class-stock-too persona may carry the most weight is in the Midwest, particularly the so-called battlegrounds, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
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