This year's 17 swing states split their votes almost evenly between Bush and Al Gore in 2000. Neither defeated the other by more than six percentage points. (Tennessee, where Bush won by four points, is not included in our list of swing states. If Gore could not win as a native, then Kerry's cause there is hopeless.) The largest swing states -- Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio -- contain a treasure trove of electoral votes.

Voters evenly divided
