The first social media Olympics have become a minefield for the Olympic movement—and especially for Twitter, which has trumpeted its tight connection to the London Games.
New Polls in Three Battleground States Show Obama Edge
By JEFF ZELENY and DALIA SUSSMAN
Despite an advantage on the economy for Mitt Romney, personal appeal is
helping President Obama, according to Quinnipiac University/New York
Times/CBS News surveys.
Ground Zero Workers Reach Deal Over Health Claims
By MIREYA NAVARRO
A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials.
Battlegrounds on ‘Tiny Specks of Earth’
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
“The Pacific,” a 10-part World War II mini-series that begins on Sunday on HBO, follows a Marine division through tropical battlegrounds that have since faded from the collective memory.
A swing state (also know as a battleground state) is a state that could be won by either candidate in the United States presidential election and could swing the vote of the electoral college in favor of one candidate or the other. The results of the presidential elections in the United States are determined not by the results of the popular vote (i.e. the total number of individual votes received), but by the electoral vote (i.e. the votes received from the electoral college). For this reason, when campaigning, candidates tend to ignore states in which it is believed that they will either win or lose with a clear margin, and instead devote their time, energy, money, and advertising efforts to states in which the predicted results are not clear. These states are known as swing states because their popular vote could go either way and the resulting impact on the electoral vote could tip the results of the national election.
Many factors are taken into consideration when determining which states are swing states in a given election. These include historical voting patterns in the state, the state's results from the last presidential election or elections, the state of origin of the presidential and vice presidential candidates, and the results of public opinion polls leading up to the elections.
Last updated: October 17, 2004.
ground zero
Often defined as "the surface directly above or below the point at which a nuclear explosion takes place," the term "ground zero" is also used for the site of the collapse of the World Trade Center's twin towers.
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