Battleground states

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Competitive states that could go to either party in a presidential general election. In 2004, 17 states are generally considered battleground territory:

State (electoral votes) (winner in 2000)

• Arizona (10) (Bush)
• Arkansas (6) (Bush)
• Florida (27) (Bush)
• Iowa (7) (Gore)
• Maine (4) (Gore)
• Michigan (17) (Gore)
• Minnesota (10) (Gore)
• Missouri (11) (Bush)
• Nevada (5) (Bush)
• New Hampshire (4) (Bush)
• New Mexico (5) (Gore)
• Ohio (20) (Bush)
• Oregon (7) (Gore)
• Pennsylvania (21) (Gore)
• Washington (11) (Gore)
• West Virginia (5) (Bush)
• Wisconsin (10) (Gore)

Zogby International has used a slightly different definition of "battleground states", which excludes Arizona and Maine from the list but adds Tennessee (11) (Bush). As of August 2004, Zogby has added four more states -- Arizona, Colorado (9) (Bush), North Carolina (15) (Bush), and Virginia (13) (Bush) -- bringing its total to 20 battleground states.