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...After weeks of intense competition for his support, Florida governor Charlie Crist endorses McCain...
...McCain wins the Florida primary...
From Hurricane Frederic in 1979 to tropical storm fay, which ravaged Florida in late August, Americans affected by disaster have looked to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for aid. But long before its error-plagued response to Hurricane Katrina (which marked its third anniversary Aug. 29), critics complained that FEMA, meant to epitomize state humanitarianism, was a synonym for government dysfunction...
...SUCCESS FAILURE George H. W. Bush 1989-1993 UNPREPARED FEMA's lackluster response to 1989's Hurricane Hugo prompts Senator Fritz Hollings to denounce it as the "sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses I've ever known." Yet the agency is caught flat-footed again when Hurricane Andrew overwhelms southern Florida in 1992, leaving 160,000 people homeless and probably costing Bush the next election. SUCCESS FAILURE Bill Clinton 1993-2001 AID ABOUNDS New FEMA Director James Lee Witt makes the agency more proactive. Project Impact, designed to target and equip high-risk areas, doles out funds in flood-prone regions...
...Colorado is not the only state where Plouffe thinks Obama has the potential to dramatically increase voter turnout - with voters favorable to his candidate. He noted that in Florida, 600,000 registered African-Americans and 900,000 registered voters under the age of 40 did not show up at the polls in 2004. "It's on the margins, but all of these states are going to be won or lost on the margins. We think we're going to have an exceptional field goal unit, and so we think we can win a lot of close races." In other words...