Why are repubs listed first on every race on my Florida sample ballot?

It's repub first, Dem second and everyone else third. What's up with that?

I don'ty follow local as close as I should.

tied to Luis Posada Carilles and Iran-Contra hearings (read - cover for Bush and Reagan). Tell everyone you know just who this guy is and why they shouldn't vote for him.

DO your own research if you don't like mine..but here's a tiny portion of what McCollum is all about..

http://www.sptimes.com/News/102200/news_pf/State/Bill_McCollum__Parall.shtml
snip

During 10 terms, never facing formidable opposition, McCollum tended to focus more on national and international matters than issues more directly affecting his district. During the 1980s, he focused much of his energy trying to bolster the Contras in Nicaragua and the government of El Salvador. He and his staff frequently flew to Central America.

Serving on the Judiciary and Banking committees, he become an authority on crime and terrorism and laid down a consistently pro-business record often attacked by consumer groups.

The Public Campaign, a campaign finance reform advocacy group, in 1998 awarded him its first "Golden Leash Award," for receiving generous contributions from banking and credit card companies and promoting "special favors for his "cash constituents' at the expense of his real constituents back home."

Although his Democratic opponent for the Senate, Bill Nelson, portrays McCollum as a consistent partisan extremist, his record often shows more nuance than that.

Early in his career, for instance, McCollum led the charge to prevent the Legal Services Corp., which provides legal help to the poor, from filing class-action lawsuits. But more recently, McCollum quietly fended off efforts by the GOP leadership to eliminate Legal Services funding.

in bizarro bush world

Don't have time right now to look it up.

That should push some reform through.

just a theory

It should be alphabetical... just like in 3rd grade :)

Winner gets top spot. I think that's how they do it here in Illinois.

Republicans listed first in all races.

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for Governor in the last general election. Thought I could paste the text here but it didn't work and I have to leave.

Giving the incumbent the advantage doesn't seem democratic to me.

In Indiana the party of Secretary of State gets their names first on the ballot.

nt :sarcasm: