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Final Days Show Race Tightening

Candidates Hopeful

Teeter said he believed the number of voterswho were wavering was much lower, "somewhat under10 percent."

Bush professed little doubt about the outcometomorrow.

"Things are moving in our direction," he saidas he raced yesterday from Colorado to Californiato Michigan.

Dukakis, in a desperate race, noted that bothcandidates began the day in Colorado.

"For months George Bush has been following mearound on the issues. He discovered education afew months ago, he even discovered the environmenta few months ago," he said.

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"This week he started following me around on mymessage, telling people he's on your side. Nowhe's following me around the country. I'll tellyou one place he's not going to follow me. He'snot following Lloyd Bentsen and me to 1600Pennsylvania Avenue."

Bentsen, the vice presidential nominee, flewfrom Illinois to Texas in a final bid to preventBush from taking his home state.

In an NBC interview, Bentsen conceded that nomatter which candidate won, he wouldn't have muchof a mandate after the election.

He also said that if he returned to the Senatein a Bush administration, he would help Bush whenhe thought it was deserved and try to block himwhen he thought the president was wrong.

Quayle, who shows up as a drag on theRepublican ticket in virtually all the polls,declined invitations to appear on networktelevision and campaigned yesterday in Virginia,one of the safest Republican states where a newpoll showed Bush with a 56-25 lead.

Dukakis used his 30-minute campaign-closingcommercial to show himself responding to questionsfrom average Americans and to trum pet thepopulist theme that has adopted in the hope ofscoring an upset tomorrow.

"Look in the mirror and ask yourself," he saysin a film clip taken from a rally. "Is George Bushon your side?

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