| | Bush campaign sees California, New York as ripe for taking - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04) |
 | | Both states are ripe for the taking, according to election strategists, even though California has preferred Democrats since President Bush's father won there in 1988 and New York has leaned liberal since Ronald Reagan took the state in 1984. |
 | | New York has a Republican governor, a Republican mayor of New York City and a very popular former city mayor — Rudolph Giuliani — and will be the site of the Republican National Convention in late August and early September, just two months before the general election. |
 | | He raised $30 million in two weeks; the convention's in New York near the anniversary of September 11.' None of this comes as a coincidence." Miss Marsh also noted that California was once a Republican stronghold, twice voting for President Reagan, who is a former governor of the state. |
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