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• Paul Ryan’s mom to hit campaign trail with v.p. candidate son

  Elizabeth "Betty" Ryan Douglas of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea will join her son, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, on the campaign trail this weekend.

  She’s joining him at a Saturday morning rally at The Villages in Central Florida, some of the most Republican territory in the state.

  It’ll be the first time Douglas, [...]

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• Past results no guarantee of future performance

  As they say in the fine print for mutual funds, past results are no guarantee of future performance.

  That’s also true for political candidates – especially School Board and judge candidates who didn’t win their nonpartisan elections outright on Tuesday. In races in which no candidate got half the votes [...]

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• Close elections hurt - ask Oliver Parker, et al

  My colleague Brett Clarkson and I have the following story:

  Oliver Parker got creamed in Tuesday’s judicial election.

  But his defeat in Broward didn’t sting like that squeaker years ago when he lost a state representative race by just a dozen votes.
  

  “When you talk about 12 [...]

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