Word: jeb
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...Bush Family Can you say "dynasty?" This family sure can. Jeb's latest victory - and the President's success stumping for Republican candidates in Texas, New Hampshire and Georgia - makes the Bushes of Kennebunkport look even more like the Kennedys of Hyannis Port...
...losing, McBride may have scored one victory over Jeb. After conceding the election , he insisted that his education-centric campaign had at least "moved [Florida's] agenda to the right place" - and he seemed to be borne out as a ballot initiative mandating limits on Florida school class sizes, a measure Jeb opposed as too expensive, seemed headed toward a narrow victory...
...Jeb got a big assist from his big brother. President George W. Bush had thrown all his weight behind the Governor - making more than a dozen campaign visits and tailoring a number of White House policies, on issues like Cuba and the Florida Everglades, to help ensure Jeb will be seated in Tallahassee when the 2004 presidential race rolls around. The Bush camp had hoped to take on former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, whose liberal cachet might have alienated Florida's large mass of independent and centrist voters. But the more conservative McBride, 57, who once ran Florida...
...Then McBride betrayed his political inexperience by letting Jeb turn the tables and make taxes the race's central issue. When McBride failed to articulate how he'd pay for improved schooling in Florida, Jeb pounced and successfully labeled McBride a tax-and-spend Democrat, political death in tax-allergic Florida, which still resists a state income tax. "This turned from an election spotlighted on education to one focused on pocketbook issues," says Susan MacManus, a leading Florida political analyst at the University of South Florida in Tampa. While the chief voter concern was schools, she notes, Floridians were willing...
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