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ByABC News
November 5, 2000, 1:39 PM

— -- End Game for Bush and Gore

Plus: Inside the Next Presidents Cabinet and Ailing Slugger Ted Williams Doing OK  

Nov. 5 Clinging to a lead in the polls, GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush wants people to vote for a fresh start on Election Day, while rival Al Gore is imploring supporters to lift me up.

What would a Bush or a Gore presidency look like? Check our complete coverage for an interactive tour of their policy positions and their possible cabinet members, an Electoral College map, and candidate profiles.

Bush leads Gore in the polls, but how about the battle of the sports teams, pumpkins, and Halloween masks? ABCNEWS.coms Michael James looks at some of the stranger ways to predict who will win the White House.

Abdelkhader El Mouaziz became the first Moroccan winner of the New York City Marathon, breaking away just past the 12-mile mark. Ludmila Petrova of Russia won the womens race.

Ted Williams, one of baseballs greatest hitters, is in intensive care in a Florida hospital, but he tells a Boston newspaper he doesnt know where everybodys getting the news that Im at deaths door.

If pits are tiny, tiny valleys on a CD, why dont dust and scratches clog them up and stop the music? This weeks Answer Geek column explains all.

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