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Too Close for Comfort

By election day, the two presidential candidates will campaign in more cities and towns than many Americans visit in a lifetime. Political strategists have calculated which states are "must win" to reach the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the presidency. But as history has shown, the math is sometimes way off. NPR's National Political Correspondent Elizabeth Arnold reports.

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