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Long considered a sure Bush win--mainly because George W.'s brother Jeb is the state's governor--Gore has managed to make inroads in the state's large senior citizen population by attacking Bush's Social Security plan. Recent polls have shown the race within two or three percentage points...
...Government exists to preserve that opportunity. To see that every citizen gets his chance at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no matter what he started off with. And for a president, that responsibility is a personal...
...Government must walk a difficult line. It should try to help where it can, without getting in the way of those who don't need help. It should ensure that every citizen, whether he makes $20,000 or $120,000 or $12 million, has an audible voice in the government that represents him. And in good economic times like these, the government's job is to facilitate those good times, to allow that prosperity to happen. To not stand in the way. To do the things, like balancing the budget and paying down the national debt, that allow the stock...
...said, living in a swing state became exhausting in the last days of the campaign. Just ask Dave Shand, 45, of Saline, Mich., who was constantly pestered by pollsters, like the one he told he was a registered voter planning to go Republican. Shand is a left-leaning Canadian citizen. "You know that 3 percent-to-4 percent margin of error?" he says. "That...
...varies with respect to whether they are running for national public office or when a private citizen becomes a part of a crisis," he said. "[The private citizen] didn't choose to be news items. This is where we need to be much more sensitive...