http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A449-2004Oct26.htmlCampaign Trail Takes Clinton to South Florida
He Touts Kerry to Jewish, Hispanic Voters
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 27, 2004; Page A14
BOCA RATON, Fla., Oct. 26 -- Hoarse partisans called out "eight more years." Suburban moms turned giddy and waited in long lines just to touch his hand.
It was, in short, a rock-star-scale reception as former president Bill Clinton made high-profile campaign appearances Monday evening and Tuesday in South Florida aimed at inspiring Democrats to elect Sen. John F. Kerry president next week. Clinton, looking thin and somewhat weary six weeks after heart-bypass surgery, donned a white yarmulke before addressing a packed synagogue in Palm Beach County on Tuesday. He spread his arms wide the night before as he strolled onstage to the hip-hop groove of Outkast's "Hey Ya" outside the Miami government center building that was the scene of some of the pivotal moments of the disputed 2000 presidential election.
Clinton's appeal in this state, which he won in 1996 but narrowly lost to George H.W. Bush in 1992, is undeniable. Democrats hope his popularity among Jewish voters -- a group that President Bush has aggressively courted -- and among black voters will help increase Democratic turnout in what polls show to be an exceedingly close contest for Florida's 27 electoral votes.
Clinton opted for a mocking tone and knowing smiles over heated rhetoric as he made a case for unseating Bush. In both appearances, the former president highlighted recent reports of missing explosives in Iraq to ridicule Bush's television ads featuring wolves as symbolic terrorists and accusing Kerry of being weak on terrorism.
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