http://www.thedailycamera.com/extra/.../08astate.html
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Vice President Al Gore became the first presidential candidate since George McGovern in 1972 to lose his home state.
The loss was not entirely unexpected: Many Tennesseans say they did not consider Gore one of their own because of his close ties to Washington.
“He really doesn’t live here,” said Jonathon Fuller, a 19-year-old student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. “He only comes back when he wants votes.”
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and later in the article:
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The Clinton-Gore ticket won the state twice, but only by 2 percentage points in 1996.
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#6 isn't important because there was no reported voter fraud there.