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...Chief Executive visit. Where Clinton did go, candidates like Maryland's Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Massachusetts' Shannon O'Brien lost. In Florida, where Clinton went to help Bill McBride, who was still within striking distance of Governor Jeb Bush, the ex-President failed decisively to get out the vote. Turnout actually dropped 17% from 1994, the last Democratic gubernatorial...
...takeover of the Senate was close to two years in the making, the strategy hammered out by Rove and various high-ranking G.O.P. activists in secret meetings held everywhere from Capitol Hill brasseries to West Virginia golf courses. By the eve of the election, G.O.P. polls projected a big turnout by Republican voters energized by Bush's full-court press: he visited 15 states in the past five days. Democratic strategists, meanwhile, underestimated his pull. "Bush's coattails were far more effective than anybody on our side thought," says a top Democratic operative. "We thought his popularity numbers were soft...
...Obviously, the huge turnout meant a great deal to me,” said senior setter and team captain Mindy Jellin. “The women’s volleyball team has come a long way since I have been here and the number of people there this weekend shows that...
Even though the Office of Undergraduate Education had predicted an attendance of over a hundred, Gross said he was happy with the turnout...
...across the state by Jesse Jackson and former President Bill Clinton could galvanize enough of the Democratic base to save McBride. The campaign even rallied around hundreds of detaine Haitian refugees in Miami last week in a not-so-subtle effort to raise the kind of massive black voter turnout that helped Al Gore run neck-and-neck with George W. Bush in Florida two years...