Why were New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and Indiana key states in national elections?

A) Those states possessed 75 percent of the nation's electoral votes.
B) The Republican Party garnered 80 percent of the votes in those states.
C) Those states were evenly contested between the Democrats and Republicans.
D) All members of the Supreme Court came from one of those four states.


Answer: C

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