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Statewide opinion polling for the 2024 United States presidential election
This article is a collection of statewide opinion polls conducted for the 2024 United States presidential election. The people named in the polls were declared candidates or had received media speculation about their possible candidacy.

According to NPR's analysis, the states considered to be not strongly leaning in either direction were Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Opinion poll
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll, is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster.
Nico Motchebon
Nico Motchebon (born 13 November 1969 in Berlin) is a former German 800 metres runner.

His personal best of 1:43.91 was set on 31 July 1996 in the 800 m final of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he finished fifth. Motchebon won bronze medals at the 1993 and 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He also set a temporary European indoor record over 800 m in 1995. His 600 m indoor personal best stood as the indoor 600 m world record from 1999 until 2017.

Before turning to athletics in late 1992, he competed in the modern pentathlon. He even qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics but ultimately he did not participate.

He is of Cameroonian descent through his father.

1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 4th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Skydome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from March 12 to March 14, 1993. It was the last Indoor Championships to feature the 5,000 and 3,000 metres race walk events. In addition, it was the first Indoor Championships to include heptathlon and pentathlon, albeit as non-championship events. There were a total number of 537 athletes participated from 93 countries.
Sandia Base
Sandia Base was the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense from 1946 to 1971. It was located on the southeastern edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico.  For 25 years, the top-secret Sandia Base and its subsidiary installation, Manzano Base, carried on the atomic weapons research, development, design, testing, and training commenced by the Manhattan Project during World War II. Fabrication, assembly, and storage of nuclear weapons was also done at Sandia Base. The base played a key role in the United States nuclear deterrence capability during the Cold War. In 1971 it was merged into Kirtland Air Force Base.

Oxnard Field
Oxnard Field (also known at various times as Albuquerque Airport and Albuquerque Army Air Field) was the first airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It served as the home of commercial aviation in Albuquerque from 1928 to 1929 and remained in use for other purposes until 1948. The field was located on Albuquerque's East Mesa, east of the present site of Albuquerque International Sunport.
2024 JC Ferrero Challenger Open – Doubles
Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Divij Sharan were the defending champions but chose to defend their title with different partners. Kaliyanda Poonacha partnered Anirudh Chandrasekar and successfully defended his title. Sharan partnered Stefano Travaglia but they withdrew from the tournament before their first round match.

Chandrasekar and Kaliyanda Poonacha won the title after defeating Romain Arneodo and Íñigo Cervantes 7–6(7–2), 6–4 in the final.

Íñigo Cervantes
Íñigo Cervantes Huegun García (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈiɲiɣo θeɾˈβantes]; born 30 November 1989) is a Spanish professional tennis player who currently specializes in doubles. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 95 achieved on 23 June 2025. He also has a career-high singles ranking of No. 56 achieved on 21 March 2016.
1993 Shanghai International Film Festival
The 1st Shanghai International Film Festival was the inaugural film festival of the now A-grade Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF). It was held for one week in Shanghai between October 7 and October 14, 1993. The festival saw participation of 167 films from 33 countries and 300,000 attendees.

Shanghai Film Art Center was the primary main venue with an additional eight secondary venues.

Im Kwon-taek
Im Kwon-taek (Korean: 임권택; born December 8, 1934) is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards, as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry. As of spring 2015, he has directed 102 films.
Bernard Bate
Bernard Bate (1960–2016) was an American linguistic anthropologist. He specialized in the Tamil language and the history of public speaking, and was professor of anthropology at Yale University and at Yale-NUS College. His best known work was the book Tamil Oratory and Dravidian Aesthetic: Democratic Practice in South India which describes the emergence of a tradition of public speaking in the Tamil language during the Indian independence movement. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He taught at Yale for ten years before moving to the Yale-NUS College in Singapore, where he was instrumental in the development of the college's programs. Bate died in his sleep on 11 March 2016.

Yale–NUS College
Yale–NUS College was a liberal arts college from April 2011 to June 2025 in Singapore. It was established in 2011 by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yale University. Following a unilateral decision by NUS  in 2021 to close Yale-NUS College and establish NUS College in its place, no further admissions were accepted after 2021, and the College was fully closed in 2025.
James May: My Sisters' Top Toys
James May: My Sisters Top Toys is a British television documentary.  Presented by James May, it was first broadcast on 23 December 2007 on BBC Two.  The show was a spin-off from the 2005 documentary James May's Top Toys, and was first shown as one of three shows which made up the "Top Gear Night In".

The show focused on the toys loved by his elder and younger sisters, including dolls, dolls' houses, dolls' prams, Girls' World, Ladybird Books, Spirograph, and a Palitoy (Kenner) Tree Tots Family House.  May speaks about how he often played with them as they were hand-me-downs.

During the show, May sets up a race as a girls' school (Skipton Girls' High School) and a boys' school (Ermysted's Grammar School) battle it out in a go-kart time trial, using their own converted Silver Cross prams.  May gets his own made by the pram factory. He tests it out, battling for first place alongside the girls and the boys.

Spirograph
Spirograph is a geometric drawing device that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. The well-known toy version was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.

The name has been a registered trademark of Hasbro Inc. since 1998 following purchase of the company that had acquired the Denys Fisher company. The Spirograph brand was relaunched worldwide in 2013, with its original product configurations, by Kahootz Toys.
AIDS (journal)
AIDS is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. It was established in 1987 and is an official journal of the International AIDS Society. It covers all aspects of HIV and AIDS, including basic science, clinical trials, epidemiology, and social science. The editor in chief is Jay A. Levy. Eighteen issues are published annually.

Jay A. Levy
Jay A. Levy  (born November 21, 1938) is an American AIDS and cancer research physician.  He is a professor of medicine with specialties in virology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Kenneth Sharpe
Kenneth William Sharpe (b 1940)  was a senior Welsh Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Newport from 1997 to 2008.

Sharpe was educated at St David's College, Lampeter and Sarum Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1963 and priest in 1964. After  a curacy in Hubberston he was Team Vicar of Cwmbran from 1971 to 1974. and of Dingestow from 1974 to 1982. He was also the Youth Chaplain for the Diocese of Monmouth from 1974 to 1982. Sharpe was Vicar of St Mark, Newport from 1982 to 1997.

University of Wales, Lampeter
University of Wales, Lampeter (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited degree awarding powers since 1852. It was a self-governing college of the University of Wales from 1972 until its merger  (under its 1828 charter) with Trinity University College in 2010 to form the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

The university was founded as St David's College (Coleg Dewi Sant), becoming St David's University College (Coleg Prifysgol Dewi Sant) in 1971, when it became part of the federal University of Wales. With fewer than 2,000 students on campus, it was often claimed to be one of the smallest public universities in Europe.
Mesostriatal system
The Mesostriatal system is a term sometimes used to identify the midbrain dopamine projections into the striatum and cortex.  It has been described as a combination of the mesolimbic and nigrostriatal dopamine projections, and has been described as being partially asymmetric.

Midbrain
The midbrain or mesencephalon is the uppermost portion of the brainstem connecting the diencephalon and cerebrum with the pons. It consists of the cerebral peduncles, tegmentum, and tectum.

It is functionally associated with vision, hearing, motor control, sleep and wakefulness, arousal (alertness), and temperature regulation.

The name mesencephalon comes from the Greek mesos, "middle", and enkephalos, "brain".
St. Joseph's African Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Joseph's African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church building located at Fayetteville Street and Durham Expressway in the Hayti District, now a neighborhood of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina.

Durham County, North Carolina
Durham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 324,833, making it the sixth-most populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Durham, which is the only incorporated municipality predominantly in the county, though very small portions of cities and towns mostly in neighboring counties also extend into Durham County. The central and southern parts of Durham County are highly urban, consisting of the city as well as several unincorporated suburbs. Southeastern Durham County is dominated by the Research Triangle Park, most of which is in Durham County. The northern third of Durham County is rural in nature. Durham County is the core of the Durham–Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh–Durham–Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
Odette Talazac
Odette Pauline Talazac (French pronunciation: [ɔdɛt polin talazak]; 6 May 1883 – 29 March 1948) was a French singer and stage and film actress.

Talazac was the daughter of tenor Jean-Alexandre Talazac and his wife, the soprano Hélène Fauvelle. She began her career singing in music halls before turning to the theater and cinema. She was married in 1900 in Chatou to jeweler Georges Aucoc.

Chatou
Chatou (French pronunciation: [ʃatu] ⓘ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Chatou is a part of the affluent suburbs of western Paris and is on the northwest side of the Seine river about 14 km (9 mi) from the city's center.
LA-12 Kotli-V
LA-12 Kotli-V is a constituency of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly which is currently represented by Amir Yasin Chaudhry of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). It covers the area of Charhoi Tehsil in Kotli District.

Charhoi Tehsil
Charhoi (Urdu: چرہوئی) is a tehsil of Kotli District, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.

In March 2024, two Indian pythons were seen by residents in a rural settlement named Gulpur in the Charhoi tehsil, which were later released into a local wildlife sanctuary in Kotli district.
Per Dahl (ice hockey)
Per Henry Dahl (21 March 1916 – 17 February 1989), nicknamed Peddal, was a Norwegian ice hockey player.

He was born in Høvik in Bærum, Norway and represented the club Bærum SK. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and  competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

Norway men's national ice hockey team
The Norway men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team from Norway that participates at the IIHF World Championships. The team is governed by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association and is coached by Petter Thoresen.
Egorlykskaya (air base)
Egorlykskaya is a former airbase of the Russian Air Force located 37 kilometres (23 mi) south-east of Zernograd, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

The base was home to the 325th Independent Helicopter Regiment between 1992 and 2010 with the Mil Mi-8 (ASCC: Hip), Mil Mi-6 (ASCC: Hook) & Mil Mi-26 (ASCC: Halo).

Since September of 2023, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it has been used for storage of North Korean ammunition.

Mil Mi-8
The Mil Mi-8 (Russian: Ми-8, NATO reporting name: Hip) is a family of medium twin-turbine helicopters, originally designed by the Soviet Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) in the 1960s and introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968. Russian production of the aircraft model still continues as of 2024. In addition to its most common role as a transport helicopter, the Mi-8 is also used as an airborne command post, armed gunship, and reconnaissance platform.

The Mi-8 is the world's most-produced helicopter, with over 17,000 units used by over 50 countries. As of 2015, when combined with the related Mil Mi-17, the two helicopters are the third most common operational military aircraft in the world.
Brahmanapally, Nalgonda district
Brahmanapally is a village in Yadadri district in Telangana, India. It falls under Bibinagar mandal. This village is located on the road connecting Bibinagar and Nagireddy Pally. Hindustan Sanitary ware Ltd industry is located in this village.

Yadadri Bhuvanagiri
Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district  is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The administrative headquarters is located at Bhuvanagiri which is also known as Bhongiri. The district shares boundaries with Suryapet, Nalgonda, Jangaon, Siddipet, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts.
Ottó Tolnai
Ottó Tolnai (Serbian Cyrillic: Ото Толнаи, 5 July 1940 – 27 March 2025) was a Yugoslav and Hungarian writer, poet and translator, and a recipient of the Kossuth Prize. He was one of the most versatile and outstanding figures of Hungarian literature in Vojvodina. His works have been published in Serbian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovenian, and German.

Kossuth Prize
The Kossuth Award (Hungarian: Kossuth-díj, pronounced [ˈkoʃudːiːj]) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established on 15th March 1948, on the occasion of the centenary of the 1848 revolution,  by the Hungarian National Assembly, to acknowledge outstanding personal and group achievements in the fields of science, culture and the arts, as well as (during the Hungarian People's Republic) in the building of socialism in general.

Since 1963, the domain has been restricted to culture and the arts. Today, it is regarded as the most prestigious cultural award in Hungary, and is awarded by the President.
AOX
AOX or Aox can refer to:

Adsorbable organic halides, a group of halogenated organic substances that are able to adsorb onto activated carbon

Aox Inc., a defunct American manufacturer of computer expansion cards

Antioxidant

Alternative oxidase, an enzyme that forms part of the electron transport chain in mitochondria of different organisms

Aox Inc.
Aox Inc. was a privately run American technology corporation founded by Michael and Linda Aronson in 1978. Over the course of its 22-year lifespan, the company chiefly developed software and hardware for IBM's PC and compatibles, for the Personal System/2 (IBM's intended successor to the PC), and for the Macintosh. In its twilight years, the company designed multimedia and teleconferencing devices and chip designs. Aox was founded after Michael Aronson graduated from Harvard University with a doctorate in physics; he stayed with the company until 2000, when he incorporated EndPoints Inc. and switched to full-time fabless semiconductor design.
Sun of China
"Sun of China" (Chinese: 中国太阳; pinyin: zhōngguó tàiyáng) is a science-fiction short story by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, first published in Science Fiction World (Chinese: 科幻世界; pinyin: kēhuàn shìjiè) in Chengdu in Sichuan Province in January 2002. The short story was included in the collection The Wandering Earth published by Head of Zeus in October 2017.

Science Fiction World
Science Fiction World (Sci-Fi World; SFW; Chinese: 科幻世界; pinyin: kēhuàn shìjiè), begun in 1979, is a monthly science fiction magazine published in the People's Republic of China, headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan. It dominates the Chinese science fiction magazine market, reaching a peak circulation of 300,000–400,000 copies per issue for a time after 1999, as a result of coincidentally publishing an issue matching the essay topic of the gaokao for that year, memory transplantation, which earned recognition from Xinhua.
Classic Car Rescue
Classic Car Rescue is a British/Canadian reality television series produced by Blink Films and aired on Channel 5 for six weeks in 2012, as well as on Discovery Networks affiliates in international markets.

Each one-hour episode documents the work of Cockney mechanic Bernie Fineman and his Italian Canadian business partner Mario Pacione, as they purchase "shameful rust bucket" classic cars from scrapheaps, barns, and backyards and restore them to their former, or to new, glories. Having bought the "bargain wrecks," the pair must then source the parts needed to return the cars to the shiny, desirable motors they once were. At the end of each episode, the cars are appraised by an automotive valuer before being given away in a viewer competition. The programme returned with a second series in 2014, running for eight weeks.

Cockney
Cockney is a dialect of the English language mainly spoken in London, particularly by Londoners from working-class and lower-middle-class families. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End, or, traditionally, born within earshot of Bow Bells.

Estuary English is an intermediate accent between Cockney and Received Pronunciation, also widely spoken in and around London, as well as in wider South East England. In multicultural areas of London, the Cockney dialect is, to an extent, being replaced by Multicultural London English—a new form of speech with significant Cockney influence.
Urawa Nishi High School
Saitama Prefectural Urawa Nishi High School (埼玉県立浦和西高等学校, Saitama Kenritsu Urawanishi Kōtō Gakkō), often shortened to Nishikō (西高) is a public high school in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.  It is one of the few public schools in the prefecture that does not have a school uniform.

Until the 1970s, the school enjoyed prestigious position after Urawa High School and Urawa Ichijo High School.  During the 80s and 90s, it was known as one of the best public schools and sent its alumni to the best universities in Japan, such as Tokyo University.  Many applicants to the school are attracted by the no-school-uniform policy and by the liberal atmosphere that encourages students' independence.

School uniform
A school uniform is a uniform worn by students primarily for a school or otherwise an educational institution. They are common in primary and secondary schools in various countries and are generally widespread in Africa, Asia, Oceania, the British Isles and much of the Americas, but are not common in the United States, Canada, and most countries in continental Europe.

An example of a uniform would be requiring button-up shirts, trousers for boys, and blouses and  pleated skirts for girls, with both wearing blazers. A uniform can even be as simple as requiring collared shirts, or restricting colour choices and limiting items students are allowed to wear.
Facing the Animal
Facing the Animal is the tenth studio album by Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released in 1997 through Pony Canyon (Japan) and Mercury Records (United States). The album reached No. 20 on the Finnish albums chart and No. 39 on the Swedish albums chart.

Although credited to Malmsteen, "Air on a Theme" is an arrangement of the second movement (Largo) of Antonio Vivaldi's "Piccolo Concerto in C Major (RV443)". Facing the Animal features one of drummer Cozy Powell's last performances before his death in April 1998.

Pony Canyon
Pony Canyon Inc. (株式会社ポニーキャニオン, Kabushiki gaisha Ponī Kyanion), also known by the shorthand form Ponican (ぽにきゃん, Ponikyan), is a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966, which distributes music, films, home video, and video games. It is affiliated with the Japanese media group Fujisankei Communications Group. Pony Canyon is a major leader in the music industry in Japan, with its artists regularly at the top of the Japanese charts. Pony Canyon is also responsible for releasing taped concerts from its artists as well as many anime productions and several film productions.

Pony Canyon is headquartered in Tokyo with offices in Taiwan and South Korea. It employs approximately 360 people. Pony Canyon also owns the recording label Flight Master.
Serjila Mountain
Serjila Mountain (Chinese: 色季拉山, Tibetan: གསེར་རྗེ་ལ), part of the Nyenchen Tanglha Range in Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, is a critical geographical and cultural landmark at an elevation of 4,728 meters. It serves as the watershed between the Nyang River Basin and the Parlung Tsangpo River and is traversed by the Sichuan-Tibet Highway.

Parlung Tsangpo
Parlung Tsangpo or Parlung Zangbo (Tibetan: ཕར་ལུང་གཙང་པོ, Wylie: phar lung gtsang po; Chinese: 帕隆藏布; pinyin: Pàlóng Zàngbù), also known as Palongzangbu River, is a river in Nyingchi, Tibet, China. It is the largest tributary on the left side of Yarlung Tsangpo. Its source is the Arza Gongla Glacier, at an elevation of 4900m. It first flows north into Ngagung Tso, then turn northwest to Rakwa Tso. It joins Yarlung Tsangpo near Bomê.

The total length of Parlung Tsangpo is 266 km, and the drop of elevation is 3360m. The drainage basin covers an area of 23,800 square kilometers. The lower part of Parlung flows through the Parlung Tsangpo Valley, which is among the deepest in the world.
Malësia
Malësia e Madhe ("Great Highlands"), known simply as Malësia (Albanian: Malësia, Montenegrin: Malesija / Малесија), is a historical and ethnographic region in northern Albania and eastern central Montenegro corresponding to the highlands of the geographical subdivision of the Malësi e Madhe District in Albania and Tuzi Municipality in Montenegro. The largest settlement in the area is the town of Tuzi.

Malësi e Madhe District
Malësi e Madhe District (Albanian: Rrethi i Malësisë së Madhe), commonly known as Malësia, was one of the 36 districts of Albania, which were dissolved in July 2000 and replaced by 12 newly created counties. It had a population of 36,770 in 2001, and an area of 897 km2 (346 sq mi). It is in the north of the country, and its capital was the town of Koplik. The area of the former district is coextensive with the present municipality of Malësi e Madhe, which is part of Shkodër County.