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...know that Staff Sergeant Scott Germosen's widow Jennifer had bought him a new wedding band, to surprise him when he came home. That Captain Daniel McCollum was a star wrestler in high school, voted "best looking" in his class. That Sergeant Jeannette Winters was the first servicewoman to die in this war. That Lance Corporal Bryan Bertrand had just re-enlisted for another tour because he didn't want to sit on the sidelines at a time like this. Last week Green Beret Nathan Ross Chapman was buried by his family: we met his widow Renae on the Today...
...With Jeb Bush firmly enthroned as one of the nation's most popular Governors, his brother George W.'s presidential campaign would glide through the state like an airboat on the Everglades. And a Republican-controlled legislature--the first ever in the old Confederacy--would escort G.O.P. Congressman Bill McCollum into retiring Republican Senator Connie Mack's seat. Endorsing McCollum last month, Mack rapturously hailed "the good news for all Florida Republicans...
...news for Republicans now? George W. Bush is trailing Al Gore by 8 points in a recent statewide poll. And polls show McCollum trailing his Democratic opponent, Florida insurance commissioner Bill Nelson, by 11 points in the Senate race. McCollum, 56, whose role as a prosecutor in President Clinton's impeachment trial sharpened his image as a partisan pit bull, is barnstorming Jacksonville homeless shelters and African-American churches in his Orlando district insisting that the more moderate conservative "is who I really am." Panic hasn't set in yet; but Nelson bets that "this is where the Republican jihad...
Florida, where Gore was probably best known for his Elian Gonzalez gaffe, is in play after all. At the heart of the struggle is the McCollum-Nelson contest. It could determine nothing less than whether Democrats can thwart Republican hegemony in a burgeoning, bellwether state that has the nation's fourth largest number of electoral votes (25) and help Gore pull off a coup against the Bush dynasty that might tip the presidential race...
...less on national issues than on state concerns such as hurricanes. He admits his clashes with the insurance lobby over exorbitant storm coverage "have definitely reconsolidated" the state's fraying Democratic base. Nelson, with his TV-anchorman looks, is also aided by the impeachment-trial image of the owlish McCollum lecturing like a high school teacher about lust. "I'm a moderate Democrat vs. an arch-conservative Republican," says Nelson. "Pure and simple...