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...Bush and Gore camps consider up for grabs and critical to their success. With a handful of exceptions, even voters who have decided on a candidate said they weren't thrilled with their choice. "Bush is the lesser of two evils," said Joe Spencer, 45, an electrical technician. Betty Ford, retired from the construction business at 52, felt the same way about Gore. "I just find him so--What's the word?--unbelievable. But it'll probably be Gore. The economy is good...
...process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the truth anymore," said Ford, who moved to Central Florida 15 years ago from Atlantic City...
...believe his mother, Bush is the one you can trust. She said so in a message she left on Ford's answering machine (and on thousands of others in Florida) in which she extolled her son's virtues. It was a smart move, given Barbara Bush's likability, unless you happen to think it underscores George W.'s lack of political maturity. It's like the guy needs a permission slip from Mom saying it's O.K. for Dubya to go on the field trip to the White House...
...Clark, a senior buyer for Maine retailer L.L. Bean, says the system "frees me" to talk about issues - health care and taxes and sprawl. State senator Susan Longley says "clean" campaigning has refocused her "totally on my constituents" - not contributors. Longley's challenger, former Belfast Sheriff John Ford, says without the new law, he wouldn't be in the race. When friends asked him to run, he says, "I told them I was not going to ask the people of Waldo County to give me $35,000 to $40,000" to campaign...
Porter has also served as a top economic adviser in the White House during the presidencies of Gerald Ford, Reagan and George H.W. Bush...