This is partly because marginals are the target of most pre-election effort: party bigwigs visit, activists campaign door-to-door, posters are pasted all over town.

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Anyone can visit the temple and walk through, but only devotees are allowed past the heavy gilded door guarding the room where the tooth is held.

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Instead of being ushered in to see the president through the front door of the White House, the Russian leader merely saw Mr Bush senior during a stop-by visit at the National Security Council.

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But visit Rockwell's Engineering Lab 36, down a tiled-floor corridor and behind a nondescript door.

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During a visit to a hospital in Romford, north London, later in the day, Mr Lansley said his door was "always open" to groups like the BMA and the RCN who were not invited to the earlier meeting.

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