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Republican Kirk Fordice held a slim, steady lead over Gov. Ray Mabus in Mississippi, in a surprisingly strong bid to become the state's first GOP governor in more than a century...
...Mississippi, it was Fordice with 282,784 or 50 percent, to Mabus' 269,898 or 48 percent, with 81 percent of the vote tallied...
...Mabus counted on strong support from black voters, who make up about a third of the state's estimated 1.6 million registered voters. He depicted Fordice as an outsider and former lobbyist who didn't understand the state's needs and wouldn't make education his top priority...
Officials said in advance that Mabus faced a tougher race in Mississippi than the Democratic candidate normally has. The state has two Republican senators and is reliably Republican in presidential races...
Mississippi's department of economic and community development launched a last-minute recall of national advertisements. However, it came too late for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, which ran the copy. Pointing with pride to progress in the Magnolia State, the ads extoll Governor Ray Mabus' sweeping new educational-reform package. Unfortunately, during a special session this summer, the state legislature refused to fund the program...