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...father, Pat Francisco, played for Minnesota-Duluth in the 1960's. Angie's cousin, Jason, went on to play for Wisconsin from 1989 to 1993, and was part of the 1990 National Championship team...
...stalling at about 80 percent of registered Democrats, even as Republicans were more than 90 percent stapled to Bush by summer. Gore, a free trader, had only 45 percent of union households in June; Ralph Nader was attracting enough lefties and anti-globalists and environmentalists to tip states like Wisconsin and Oregon into Bush's column. Gore's advisers argued that they would have to rebuild the Democratic coalition bloc by bloc, first the night-shift waitresses, then the restless middle class, then finally make a run for the soccer moms. "Look, he wasn't exciting anyone," says a senior...
Congratulations. Maybe they'd higher you in Vegas. Just take a seat right next to the people who picked Alabama, Michigan, and Wisconsin as number three, four, and five in the preseason...
Part of the credit went to a new method of linking reading instruction with writing. But Accelerated Reader, by Renaissance Learning in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., was a huge hit with kids. Used in 51,000 U.S. schools, it's essentially a software program. A student doesn't get credit for reading a book before passing a test of anywhere from five to 20 questions...
...wildest scenario. Bush and Gore each get 269 electoral votes. One of many ways it could happen: Gore wins California, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Bush wins everything else, including the battleground states: Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Florida. If this happened, the race would go to Congress--and its next House would cast its votes for President. But instead of 435 members voting individually, each state delegation would have one vote. Right now, that would tend...