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...Minnesota were shaping up to be nail-biters, and so Bush was dispatched to fundraisers, get-out-the-vote events and rallies, touting the experience and political wisdom of John Sununu, Saxby Chambliss and Norm Coleman. The President also spent time in Florida, speaking on behalf of his brother Jeb, whose incumbency to the governor's mansion was under siege. Every one of those campaigns took home a victory Tuesday night. And while it's hard to measure precisely the influence the President had on voters, it's downright impossible to discount that influence completely...
...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...
...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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