The service first offered broadband data capabilities, familiar push-to-talk features, rugged and reliable handsets, and a broadening push-to-talk coverage map.

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But Asia appears prominently on the map when we talk about innovation.

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Here to talk about the polls, the electoral map, the running mates and the convention bounce is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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"They are all over the map, depending on whom you talk on any given day, " said the senior U.S. official.

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