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tossup

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toss·up  (tôsp, ts-)
n. Informal
1. An even chance or choice: It is a tossup whether we will win or lose.
2. The flipping of a coin to decide an issue.
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Noun1.tossup - an unpredictable phenomenontossup - an unpredictable phenomenon; "it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose"
fortune, hazard, luck, chance - an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"


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In Florida, which has seesawed for two months with neither candidate ever building a convincing lead, several polls over the past three days have shown Obama with leads of about two points, less than the error margin and a likely tossup.
Because the presidential campaign’s outcome is very much in doubt, a handful of tossup states such as Nevada are being aggressively courted by both the Democratic and Republican tickets.
Four more races are tossups - in Mississippi, Minnesota, Oregon and North Carolina.
 
 
 
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