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...hunting for Bush's margin of victory, you won't find it among Evangelicals, who voted in roughly the same proportion as in the past. You'll find it among groups that traditionally don't vote Republican. Bush improved his standing among blacks, Jews, Hispanics, women, city dwellers, Catholics, seniors and people who don't go to church. His biggest improvement came in the bluest of regions, the corridor from Maryland up through New Jersey and New York to Massachusetts. In Kerry's home state, Bush found close to 200,000 more voters than...
...dozens of such communities on his itinerary, and he can still rattle off their names. In "Poplar Bluff, Mo.," he notes, "23,000 people showed up in a town of 16,000 people." He won 97 of the 100 fastest-growing counties in the country--generally by a wide margin. Visiting so many obscure towns, Bush says in retrospect, "was an interesting strategy that really paid off." The President remembers a local official saying to him when he visited Marquette, Mich., "I think you will have seen 50% of the people in this area on this one trip...
...degree of sophistication and expertise required to manage the business." This year the NFL will bring in some $5 billion in revenues. The league won't discuss profits, but the community-owned Green Bay Packers earned $29.1 million on revenue of $179.2 million. That's a lofty 16% margin, although the NFL says the Pack is one of the better financial performers...
...Bush's predicted margin of victory in Ohio on election night...
...results of this year set us well on our path to meet our strategic objective of a two percent margin in 2005, three percent in 2006, and four percent in 2007,” Levy said...