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Since the Florida campaign carries such high national stakes, the two parties combined may raise a staggering $50 million to wage it. The irony is that Reno, whose celebrity could make fund raising outside Florida easier, is being tagged by so many as a liability inside the state. So far she polls better against Bush than the half a dozen other Democratic hopefuls. However, the President's younger brother thumped her 54% to 39% in a recent survey by the Mason-Dixon firm, with only 7% undecided. Reno enjoys a reputation as a principled leader who does what she thinks...
...Reno tells TIME that she is ready to parry. She notes that as America's top cop she oversaw a drop in national crime statistics eight years in a row. As for her chances against Bush: "Folks in the [Florida] Panhandle know as well as folks in Miami that the base line for excellence in areas like education, criminal justice and the environment should be higher here." What about her Parkinson's disease? As Reno, 63, travels the state in a red Ford pickup, her de facto campaign symbol, her illness hardly seems an issue. Says ex-N.O.W. president...
...tout Peterson as a Democratic John McCain; detractors say he is McCain without the charisma. But Nelson and Florida's senior Senator, Bob Graham, sent top Democratic fund raisers to Hanoi last spring to lure Peterson home. As he and his Vietnamese wife Vi Le were packing in May, Reno broke the blind-siding news that she too might run--setting up a potential north-south rift that could weaken the Democrats as they prepare to battle Bush...
Peterson so far polls 32% against Bush. But he keeps the Governor at 48% and leaves a 20% chunk undecided. It's the kind of math the centrists like. Peterson would first have to vanquish Reno in the primary, which means, he acknowledges, taking on the onerous task of convincing Democrats that he can "appeal ultimately to a wider section of voters than Democrats." Still, unless they can transform Peterson into a more galvanizing pol or make Reno more appealing to Floridians above Lake Okeechobee, the Democrats look about as likely to win as the alligators that Reno's late...
...works by Frederic Remington have long sold for lofty sums, other artists of the Old West are now fetching record prices as well. In late July a 1908 watercolor of a grizzly, right, by Charles M. Russell sold for $2.3 million at the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nev., the highest ever paid for a Russell. A painting by Philip R. Goodwin, which a Wisconsin woman said she couldn't unload for $5 at a garage sale, brought in $55,000. Overall, the five-hour auction racked up a record $14 million from investors who jetted in from...