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Perrier's Wisconsin Well...
...advisers say the number of toss-up states has increased in recent weeks - a sign, they insist, of how well their candidate is performing in traditionally Democratic areas. Bush is tied or within striking range not just in West Virginia but also in Oregon, Washington, Iowa and Wisconsin, each of which Democrats have won in the past three presidential elections. And in Tennessee, Gore's home state, and Bill Clinton's Arkansas, polls show the Texas Governor with a slight edge. "Bush is playing all over Gore's map," boasts Bill Paxon, a Bush lieutenant. "That puts...
...That's true of the gun control question, too. Now, I wonder, sitting on the edge of my bed, will Gore wallop Bush on Texas's concealed weapons law? The swing states of Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin are pretty pro-gun in their cultures. But they don't have anything like Texas's take-a-gun-to-church concealed weapons law that Bush signed. It's a winner but NOOOOOOOOOOOO... Gore blows it off to go back and talk about his signature, reinventing government. D'oh! I think Gore's too freaked by the gun owners in the battleground...
...best evidence should come from the decade-old Milwaukee program, which has more than 8,000 students. But Wisconsin stopped funding research on the program in 1995, after John Witte, a politics professor at the University of Wisconsin, found no difference in test scores between students who used the vouchers and a sample of Milwaukee public school students. Witte did note, however, that parents who used the vouchers were generally more satisfied with their children's schooling than other parents were...
Alex Molnar is a professor at the University of Wisconsin--Madison School of Education and is director of CACE. Jennifer Morales is assistant director of CACE...