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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Election Day Guide | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...Jersey's race for the Republican Senatorial nomination was by far the most colorful and significant. In it four women ?the wife of U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow, the daughter and the wife of onetime Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, the sister of Representative Franklin William Fort??? stumpspoke in the interests of their men. Candidate Frelinghuysen soon lost public interest, but the contest?gentlemanly and distinguished?between Dry Mr. Fort and Wet Mr. Morrow drew national attention. Yale's Professor Irving Fisher campaigned for Mr. Fort, Princeton's President John Grier Hibben spoke for Mr. Morrow. Beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.) | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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