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On the razor's edge view story
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
JEFF MAPES - - Oregonian
| Amid competing feelings of anxiety, anger and hope, U.S. voters again seem poised to produce a presidential race for the history books, not just for its sheer drama but also for the sense that the nation will be vastly different depending on who wins Tuesday.
That may seem like an overstatement, but the campaign has been waged under overwhelming tension as voters try to make sense of economic upheaval at home and the continuing carnage swirling about the 138,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. And more than ever before, the electorate is engulfed in endless strands of information, punditry, facts, rumor and invective pouring from the Internet, talk radio and 24-hour cable news.
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