As they watch what Congress does, the presidential candidates are also watching the electoral map.
Yet a glance at an electoral map explains why the Tories' views may be changing.
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If Mitt Romney somehow wins Ohio, then we will see an electoral map that no one could have reasonably predicted.
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Running mate Joe Biden was in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a state that's leaning toward Obama, according to CNN's electoral map.
Here to talk about the polls, the electoral map, the running mates and the convention bounce is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
According to CNN's electoral map, the states that could go either way are Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.
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Those demographics produce a bright red electoral map that favors Republican.
The Almanac offers a complete guide to the electoral map of Britain, with profiles of every constituency and a biographical profile of every member of parliament.
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Indeed, women have become critical players in Iran's electoral map.
But all one needs to do is look at the Electoral Map to see that the President is a mere 18 electoral votes shy of the 271 needed to win.
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"The Gore people find themselves in a situation similar to us in terms of the electoral map, " says Tony Fabrizio, the chief strategist for GOP nominee Bob Dole in 1996.
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If you look at the electoral map, less than three weeks out from election day, you'll see that several of the most reliably red states have moved into toss-up territory.
And that, I think, changes the electoral map in such a way where we're going to have more people ready to move forward on the agendas that we all agree with.
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With the Republicans now holding the reins of power in Austin, it is unlikely that the state's electoral map will be so friendly to Democrats after the next redistricting in 2001.
The opposition have accused the Conservatives of seeking to "gerrymander" the electoral map in their favour, but the Tories maintain the review will cut the cost of politics, make boundaries much fairer and help address a longstanding bias in the existing set-up favouring their opponents.
Koichi Nakano of Sophia University in Tokyo points out that Japan's distorted electoral map exaggerates the size of the defeat: the DPJ lost heavily against LDP candidates in depopulated rural areas that are considered to be the opposition's heartland, but which produce a disproportionate number of seats.
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Welcome to the Forbes Interactive Electoral College Map, where you can predict the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
Just like recent moves with Congressional redistricting, a review of the new Electoral College map shows how many Americans are moving to states that offer certain advantages.
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It all comes down to the Electoral College map.
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He graciously said that he wanted this to be the... (interrupted by applause as someone showed him a map of the electoral vote).
But this radical re-ordering of the map may not have a dramatic impact on electoral outcomes.
Just about every map to victory appears to include keeping Michigan and its 17 electoral votes in the Democratic camp.
School singers and their jazz band provided campaign music, and students acted as television moderators, conducting interviews and reporting electoral results by fixing either a blue or a red pin to a map of the United States.
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