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As the 2004 presidential election drew to a close, electoral pundits and strategists were transfixed on the state of Ohio. Early exit polls had indicated that John Kerry might actually come out ahead in the Buckeye state and with it the 20 electoral votes that would determine the Electoral College margin. In the end, Ohio would eventually swing by three points to George W. Bush at the center of the most competitive region in the country in which Ohio and the Midwest mirrored the three-point national popular vote margin that gave President Bush a second term.
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Rankin, D.M. (2009). The Midwest. In: Winning the White House 2008. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100428_7
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