Bush Heads to Suburbs Seeking Votes

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WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - President Bush woke up in downtown Milwaukee Wednesday, but his campaign bus promptly headed for the suburbs and even farther out - Republican territory where aides believe his re-election hopes can flourish this year.

Members of the Bush team say the rapidly growing suburbs and far-flung "exurbs" ringing cities such as Milwaukee and Green Bay, with their white, affluent, church-going populations, can counter the heavy Democratic turnout in urban areas and tip the balance in his favor.

"If you're somebody who moved into Fond du Lac or West Bend in the last year or two, you're just not revved into local politics like you will be after a visit like this," Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, told The Associated Press.

With surgical precision, Bush's bus tour stopped in eastern Wisconsin counties that Bush carried in 2000 and must win again by greater margins if he is to reverse his narrow loss of less than 6,000 votes in the state.

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