Last-ditch pitch: America’s campaigns conclude
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The Economist
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🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Both campaigns have racked up air miles covering the swing states that will decide America’s knife-edge election. We take a measure of things one day before the vote. The Turkic states of central Asia once depended heavily on Russia; now they are banding together to counterbalance it (10.38). And the costs arising as canal-boat living booms in Britain (17.46).
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