In what Battleground state does Kerry have the best chance to beat Bush?

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

Explain why.

[Neecy]

1. don't forget MO

[MAlibdem]

2. gore won penn in 2000

and i might be going to school there next year...so another footsoldier...hut!

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

3. I hope Gepherdt campaigns like hell for Missouri

Bush was ahead in the latest poll..I can't figure why

[TNMOM]

4. Arizona - they already have democratic gov

This is a winnable state.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi tawnnhan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[jfxgillis]

5. West Virginia (and to a lesser degree, Ohio), because ...

... the left-populist issue of jobs is finally neutralizing and overwhelming the right-populist issues of guns & God.

[livetohike]

6. Pennsylvania

because I believe Teresa Heinz Kerry will pull in many votes for JK. As a former Pennsylvanian, it is hard to believe that this is no longer a "Democratic stronghold" and considered a battle ground.

[billybob537]

10. Also eliminating steele tariffs hurt Bush in Penn.

[OHdem10]

7. Ohio should be

highly competitive. Today in the Polls Kerry and Bush almsot tied but Kerry edges Bush out 46 to 44. We should sin OHio. Economy in the ditch and the job loess the greatest in the nation.

[mtnester]

13. Ohio only if...

There is a strong and organized Kerry presence right up until election day. If he relies on local county dem parties or the state party, he loses.

[knight_of_the_star]

16. We'll have to fix that then, won't we?

We have enough time to re-organize and mobilize the state's resources and apply them more effectively than they have in the past. I can't help with that, but let's get to it!

[rock]

8. I would have voted Florida

but they don't count the votes down there.

[billybob537]

9. Yesturday

Robert Novak ( AKA The Fool's Tool )Stated that"If the election were held today Kerry would win in a big way taking florida and ohio."

[gulliver]

11. Florida. The Medicare fiasco is biting Bush.

People don't like $530 billion give-aways to HMOs and drug companies disguised as help for the elderly.

And the fact that the Bushies purposely hid $130 billion of the cost until after the "squeaker" vote looks really, really bad.

I also think that Jeb fatigue (still hasn't solved the school overcrowding problem) and black voter outrage over election 2000 give us an edge.

Florida needs international election monitors this time.

[JCMach1]

12. All of the above minus Colorado and AZ

:(

[West Coast Democrat]

15. Pennsylvania is securely Democratic, I think

and you've misspelled it, by the way.