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President Bush went to a rally for Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist today, but Crist apparently had better things to do. His campign explained that he wasn’t snubbing the prez, but that he already had the vote in the Panhandle wrapped up, and needed to campaign in other areas of the state. Riiiight. Crist isn’t the first Republican to head for the hills (I know there are no hills in Flordia) when the president’s come by on a campaign swing. April Rabkin collects a few more examples in our current issue, like Washington senatorial candidate Mike McGavick, who missed a Bush stop in Seattle because his son had just graduated from high school—a day earlier.
