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Just as much a wild card, however, are Floridians themselves. They are environmentally conscious on issues like Everglades preservation and offshore oil drilling. Even Crist's conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush, the President's younger brother, championed the former and opposed the latter. Still, the car is king in Florida to a greater degree than it is even in California; and the peninsula is scattered with dead initiatives to curb its use, especially local tax efforts to improve the state's virtually nonexistent public transportation. But Crist, whose optimism is as bright as his tan, isn't worried. "Floridians love their...
...been trying to mesh three reform plans since the legislature ended its regular session last month, with angry voters lighting up their switchboards. The House called for radical cuts of as much as $85 billion over the next five years, the Senate only $15 billion. Crist - whose conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush, was strangely tepid about property tax reform - has pledged to "make living in Florida more affordable" and has called for a $34 billion reduction as well as dramatic increases in the $25,000 exemption from taxable home value that homeowners currently receive...
...Crist is no Jeb Bush. In fact, his record so far is undoing much of what the younger Bush son started. In his first 100 days, Crist announced efforts to provide hurricane-insurance relief, ditch controversial touch-screen voting machines for ones with a paper trail, create a "children's cabinet" to fix Florida's dysfunctional child-welfare services, increase teacher pay by $300 million and reduce the state's overcrowded classrooms, convene a summit on global warming, promote stem-cell research and restore voting rights to felons who complete their sentences (which he did last month). At one point...
Meanwhile Romney, the true prince, plays the insurgent--even though this outsider owns a hunk of Jeb Bush's political operation, various A-list media consultants, a G.O.P. brand name and a gilded Rolodex. Running on the theme of bringing change to Washington is a little awkward when his party has been running it for most of the past seven years. But Romney made his name and fortune as a turnaround artist, and his is a party badly in need of a paint...
...TIME's poll of Republicans, but there are plenty of signs that conservatives are trying to overlook his past and fall in love. He won the straw poll at CPAC, and the endorsements are piling up. Romney has also picked up much of the political operation of Jeb Bush, who is the could-have-been candidate most longed for on the right. Money doesn't seem to be a problem either; Romney raised $6.5 million on a single National Call Day in early January. The campaign is flush enough to be on the air at this early date with...