Wexler just made an important point about Florida and the general election: John McCain supports the privatization of Social Security, and he's said so publicly, and in this campaign. Now, George Bush also supported privatization but he wasn't stupid enough to state it publicly before the election. In fact, when a New York Times Magazine report indicated that Bush supported privatization in the closing days before the 2004 election, Bush denied it vociferously. Of course, one of the first things that he did upon taking office was...attempting to privatize Social Security. That effort was beaten back -- and I can think of no state where supporting privatization would be more toxic than Florida.
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