While the two campaigns battle it out, I thought it might be interesting to look at which states are the ‘battleground states’ and what puts them into that category.

According to CBS News, here are the toss-up states:

Colorado
Florida
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
New Mexico
New Hampshire
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Wisconsin

In total, these states account for 177 electoral votes.

Each day I’ll be reaching out to political writers and thinkers in the respective states to figure out what the hot topics are and what puts their state in the ‘battleground’ category.

If you’re familiar with any of these states, feel free to give me some insight!

Btw, it would be TOO easy if there was only one map that laid out the ‘battlegound states’. I did some digging around and came up with a couple more:

CNN: Toss up electoral votes - 106

RealClearPolitics: Toss up electoral votes - 147

 New York Times: Toss up electoral votes - 66

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