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Posted on Thu, Sep. 26, 2002 McBride lobbies Florida's black community PETER WALLSTEN and LESLEY CLARK Knight Ridder Newspapers AP/Chris O'Meara Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, right, holds up hands with Janet Reno during a rally on Sept 19 in Miami. MIAMI - With a new poll showing Gov. Jeb Bush's once-daunting lead reduced to just single digits, there were signs from the campaign trail Wednesday that Democratic challenger Bill McBride is setting the agenda for the campaign's final stretch.McBride made his first personal appeal to the Miami-Dade black community that backed his former rival Janet Reno in...

<p>The mass e-mail sent out by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's re-election campaign is telling: Democratic challenger Bill McBride, already a proven giant-slayer, is 10 percentage points behind the Republican incumbent in a new Zogby poll.</p> <p>It is a slim lead against a political neophyte who overcame a 50-point deficit to defeat Janet Reno in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary.</p>