Buckeye State
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- proper noun
- /ˈbʌkaɪ steɪt/
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Estado de Buckeye
- During the election cycle, candidates often focus their campaigns on winning the Buckeye State.
- Now the Buckeye State
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The Buckeye State—all the cameras, all the country, all of your countrymen and women are looking to you because your vote matters so much, and you understand that.
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But another important battle is brewing in the Buckeye State, also set to be settled in the voting booth.
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The great state of Ohio, the Buckeye State...
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All the GOP had to do was keep the Electoral College tight enough through election night to throw it all to the Buckeye State.
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But his campaign clearly doesn't want to travel that narrow electoral path, and it is battling hard for the Buckeye State.
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While all the networks were calling the Buckeye State for Obama, Rove would not concede.
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On Friday, Ohio Governor John Kasich sent a letter to the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Center for Consumer Information and Insurance, indicating the Buckeye State will not take steps to set up the exchange.
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Romney tried to buy 10 electoral votes from Wisconsin with the Ryan selection on what he anticipated would be a winning conservative platform and gave up 20 from Ohio by not choosing Rob Portman, a moderate who would have been a favorite son candidate in the Buckeye State.
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But with polls giving Obama a slight edge in the Buckeye State, Romney's campaign has also made a late play for Pennsylvania -- a win in Pennsylvania could allow the Republican nominee to lose Ohio and still have a pathway to the 270 electoral votes it takes to win.
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Cleveland—Mitt Romney and his campaign bus will roll through the Buckeye State early this week, but given the state of the race in Ohio, he might be wise to park it here until Election Day—weekending, perhaps, in neighboring battlegrounds.
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Synonyms
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A state in the midwestern United States whose capital is Columbus
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Two-letter code for the United States state Ohio used on mail and in addresses
Surface Forms
Morphology
The composition 'Buckeye + state' is interpretable as 'the state associated with buckeyes', so a learner who knows the constituent 'buckeye' can infer it denotes a state characterized by buckeyes. However, 'Buckeye' is a low-frequency, culture-specific proper noun (and can refer to a tree or an Ohio demonym), so recognizing this as the established nickname for Ohio requires extra cultural knowledge and is not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Buckeye State comes from the many buckeye trees that grow in Ohio; one popular story says the tree's shiny nut looked like a deer's eye, so people called it a 'buck eye'. That's why Ohio is known today as the 'Buckeye State'.