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Article: Electoral College under scrutiny Popular vote would raise profile of nonbattleground states
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- International Herald Tribune
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- November 1, 2004
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John Tierney
International Herald Tribune
11-01-2004
Except for the stop at a dairy barn, where Karl Rove got in a friendly iceball fight with reporters, it was a routine day for the Bush campaign: a bus trip through Wisconsin farm country; the roads lined with voters who had already seen both presidential candidates roll past their corn fields. As usual, the president extolled the heartland virtue of self-reliance while pledging to continue subsidies for dairy farmers and ethanol producers.At the end of the day, during a rally across the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa, Rove was asked this question: Where would he have spent the day, the week before the election, if the president were ...