Good candidates discussing important issues make for interesting campaigns.
Interesting campaigns stir citizens' interest and increase voter turnout.
That's 8 percent more than voted in the 1996 general election. While the presidential race played itself out in the so-called important states, Gov. Carper, Sen. William Roth, Lt. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner and John M. Burris waged spirited campaigns here that resonated with voters. Democrat Minner and Republican Burris took their campaigns directly to the people. They used advertising, of course, but more important they crisscrossed the state shaking hands, soliciting individuals and debating each other regularly.