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...spending $30 million to McBride's $10 million) and directed millions more in federal pork toward Tallahassee. He has deployed a parade of Cabinet Secretaries as well as Dad and Mom, who produced a Kodak moment at last week's debate when she hugged former Attorney General Janet Reno, the opponent Jeb dearly wished to have...
...touch-screen voting machines, part of a $30 million upgrade undertaken after Florida's 2000 presidential recount debacle. Because of the voting fiasco, it took all of last week for state officials to confirm that Tampa attorney Bill McBride had narrowly, and stunningly, upset former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in the Democratic contest to face Governor Jeb Bush. The two counties have until this week to revise their results, but a different outcome is unlikely...
Bush, not without reason, blasted the "incompetence" of South Florida's Democratic elections supervisors; they in turn groused about insufficient funding and guidance from him. But a McBride victory might be a bigger headache for the President's brother than the voting snafus. "If McBride could catch Reno," frets one prominent Florida G.O.P. donor, "he can catch Bush." In a state where almost a quarter of the eligible voters are fence-sitting independents, centrist McBride spooks the Bush campaign far more than liberal Reno. If the 57-year-old decorated Vietnam veteran and fiscal conservative could indeed upset Bush...
Before he gets a chance to make that case, however, McBride has a primary mess on his hands. Reno has refused to concede McBride's win, since the worst voting problems occurred in her stronghold counties; she even asked for a manual recount, but state officials quickly refused. Still, how did she squander a more than 20-point poll lead over McBride, who has never held elected office? Despite Reno's celebrity and hold over liberal South Florida, Democratic donors wrote her off, convinced she would never capture enough of the conservative north. Her feckless campaign, whose only highlight...
...surprise; few Americans had imagined that an election could be held hostage by such obvious mistakes. That these widespread errors and stunning displays of incompetence were repeated in Florida’s 2002 democratic gubernatorial primary—finally conceded on Tuesday evening by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno after a week of recounts—is nothing less than mind-boggling. It’s one thing to fail to anticipate a problem; it is quite another to be aware of a flawed system and replace it with something that might even be worse...