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No doubt the Democrats will be up to their old tricks. Even so, Bush's problems run way beyond election fraud. Bush has spent four years reaching out to the Southeast corner of the state. Needless to say, the very liberal Democrats in Broward and Dade didn't discourage him but his inroads (now evaporating) came at a price in the Panhandle and North Florida. In the first debate, McBride has been criticized for saying very little. Bush crowed about the increase in spending he'd promoted to almost every question. Why vote for a Rockefeller Republican who'll push the (solidly Republican) legislature into increased spending when that same legislature can be counted on to kill any initiative a Democratic Governor suggests?

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Bush has spent four years reaching out to the Southeast corner of the state. Needless to say, the very liberal Democrats in Broward and Dade didn't discourage him but his inroads (now evaporating) came at a price in the Panhandle and North Florida.

A very big price indeed! But the Repos were given plenty of notice of the problems. If the election gets close, this could have been a fatal political oversight on Jeb's part.