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In the Democratic stronghold of Palm Beach County, President Bush's 39 percent showing last week was cause for GOP rejoicing, while Democrat John Kerry's 60.4 percent of the vote led some Dems to call for a leadership shake-up in the local party. Bush got 211,894 votes in Palm Beach County — a staggering 38.5 percent improvement over his 2000 total, when he was out-polled by even the losing GOP candidates for clerk of courts and public defender. The increase is all the more impressive considering county GOP voter registrations have barely grown over the last four years. Many of the...

During the day or when you get home at night, use your free minutes to reach out across the country, or across town; call fifteen voters, and remind them to vote on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2. Everything you need to be the difference in this election is available online. www.GeorgeWBush.com/Call

The President's campaign has a great idea, particularly for those of you with cell phones. You can call registered voters in swing states, reminding them to come out and vote for President Bush. I'll be calling 15 Floridians today on my lunch break and 15 more voters in Swing States tomorrow. Sign up as a volunteer and do something to move this campaign forward.

<p>Behind the flashy television ads and the hyped-up campaign rallies, there is a far quieter but no less intense effort being waged by Democratic incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell for Saturday's U.S. Senate runoff: a ground war to energize their core supporters and get them to the polls.</p>