Posted November 4 2004 Enthusiastic volunteers knocking on doors, staffing phone banks and driving Republicans to the polls won Florida for President Bush, even managing to dampen Sen. John Kerry's strength in traditionally Democratic strongholds of Broward and Palm Beach counties. The state GOP reported that, in a burst of campaigning during the last four days before Election Day, 109,000 volunteers made 1.7 million personal contacts with voters. In comparison, four years ago Republican volunteers made just 77,000 such contacts -- telephone calls, door-to-door visits and buttonholing of voters in public places. "Our folks just worked their hearts out," said...
