How a small number of Americans will decide the election

What are swing states? Do they have anything to do with playground swings? Are they anything to do with people putting their keys in a bowl?

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Several of our reporters have spent the last few weeks in the critical swing states, and in this edition of the Stakes I thought we’d take a closer look at those states – the bits of the US that will, essentially, decide the election in November.