The rural, gun-toting communities of north-eastern New Jersey and the blue-collar, socially-conservative counties in the south were safe Bush territory anyway.
ECONOMIST: Shock-horror in the Soprano state
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It has held up well in blue-collar states such as Michigan, Minnesota and New Jersey, where Mr Bush had long enjoyed an edge.
ECONOMIST: Al Gore, the people??s prince
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After the late-2001 collapse of Enron punctuated the end of that era, the Bush administration acted swiftly in taking an aggressive stance on white-collar crime.
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