Andrew Card, the former transportation secretary George W. Bush has tapped to serve as White House chief of staff, is one of handful of potential GOP administration players with longtime ties to the Texas governor's father, former President George Bush.

The percentage of disqualified votes county-wide was seven percent, an admittedly high number. However, in two precincts of Riviera Beach with African-American populates at 94 and 96 percent, the figure of disqualifications was 20%.

Say what you will of Bush the Younger, at least he actually got out there and ran for the office before being appointed. He even came pretty close to winning.
Assassinations and assassination attempts on political leaders never have any political meaning in this country; they are always the work of those inexplicable 'lone nut' gunmen.

You know, like that lone nut who shot President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth. The truth though is that Booth was merely the front man for a much wider conspiracy, a fact that was acknowledged at the time. Four additional co-conspirators, in fact, were sent to the gallows for the crime; two others received life sentences. You would be hard-pressed though to ascertain that fact from most of our written and oral histories.
In fact, every president who has taken office this past century as a direct result of assassination has inexplicably surrendered the job while still eligible for another term of office. As previously noted, Johnson did so in 1968. So did Teddy Roosevelt in 1908, clearing the way for William Taft. And Calvin Coolidge did likewise in 1928, clearing the playing field for Herbert Hoover.