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Wednesday, November 3, 2004 (Washington):
US President George Bush and challenger John Kerry traded
early victories Tuesday in a tense presidential election.
Bush easily won in the Republican bastions of Georgia,
Indiana and Kentucky while staving off Kerry 's
attempts to take the swing state of West Virginia.
The Democratic Senator fought back by clinching the statewide
vote in Maine, worth three electoral votes.
Texas went for Bush and New York for Kerry, but these big
prizes were no surprise.
Analysts say that most of these states went the way everyone,
including the candidates, expected them to.
Crucial states
As polls closed in more than two dozen states, from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, the race is still
wide open.
It was still too close to predict in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Florida. The three states have a combined 68 electoral votes,
forming one-fourth of the necessary total of 270
The polls gave voters a choice between an embattled wartime
incumbent and a Democrat who vigorously questioned the
invasion of Iraq and Bush's domestic policies.
Neck to neck
Polls over the weekend indicated that the race was evenly
split between the two candidates.
The battle is so close in some showdown states that an
electoral verdict was impossible to predict.
With the race so close, there are fears of a repeat of 2000's
disputed result and subsequent legal wrangling.
With this in mind, thousands of lawyers from both parties as
well as international election observers have been drafted in
the state of Florida.
The nearly month-long campaign was dominated by the US war on
terror, occupation of Iraq and foreign policy.
(With AP inputs)
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