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People can't even agree who won the state last time; Democrats have already filed nine lawsuits this year challenging election??rules. Kerry needs a big turnout in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach. Bush needs big numbers in the Panhandle and the southern Gulf Coast. Both sides want to win the area stretching from Tampa to Orlando to Daytona Beach--the fastest-growing area in the state...
...will be of no use in the big, delegate-rich states to which the contest is now shifting. "There are more people who vote in my congressional district than vote in the whole of New Hampshire," says Edward Vrdolyak, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party. "Illinois is an election???New Hampshire is a media event...
Though they have been an operational trio for a year now?they came together shortly after Reagan's election???some intimates of the President from outside the White House still doubt that they can hold together. Says one: "It's an unnatural arrangement. I don't know how it can go on indefinitely." Says another: "The players aren't lined up right. It isn't working, and it can't last...
...deficit to exceed $30 billion, an increase of $7 billion over last year's deficit. To compensate, Thatcher and her Cabinet are now talking about imposing new taxes. Ironically, it is the private sector?the area of her prime concern and source of her strongest support in the last election???that is suffering the most...
...difficult for their candidates to carry: Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Bush defeated Reagan in the primaries, and New Jersey. All six states are elements in what Reagan's aides call his "redundancy" strategy. This means that Reagan will campaign hard in more states than he needs to win the election???in contrast to Ford's 1976 "big-state" strategy, in which he conceded the cotton South to Carter, made only a pass at the Border states and concentrated on the Midwest, a tactic that may have cost him the election...