While many are saying this election will be the most exciting match-up since Hillary Clinton's run for the US Senate in New York, the fact is the race bears no similarity to that campaign. No, the real problem may be Ms Reno herself. In addition, Mr Bush's handling of the disputed vote count in Florida during the presidential election did not win him many friends among Democratic and independent voters. Mr Bush was only elected governor in 1998 and is trying to become the first Republican governor to win re-election there. It is not that the Republicans are so strong in Florida.
But it found her losing to Governor Jeb Bush in the general election by a margin of 54 to 39. In Janet Reno the voters will certainly have a woman who can make decisions but it could be that very ability which thwarts her quest.Ī public opinion poll, taken in late July, showed that Ms Reno would handily win the Democratic Party primary next September. People in Florida want a governor "who's not afraid to make the hard decision, to stand up for those decisions". "I've spent the last three months talking to people all across Florida and I think they share my vision for Florida - building the best educational system in the country, preserving our environment, managing our growth and standing up for our elders," Ms Reno said. Instead of the conventional news conference in a bland hotel banquet room, she called reporters to her home in south-west Miami, a place that with its peeling paint and screened-in porch, would be called "modest" only if one was being polite. Ms Reno announced her candidacy for the Florida governorship this week, in a fashion rather typical for her and completely atypical for US politics. Janet Reno, the six foot, one inch former US attorney general versus Governor Jeb Bush, the slightly befuddled brother of you-know-who, who succeeded in delivering the presidential election, by hook or crook, to his brother last November. In an era when most political campaigns carry the mystery and intrigue of a cheese sandwich, this one promises to be different.
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