Senior citizens are a key constituency in Florida.
If I am elected president, our government will promote medical advances with new resources and new resolve. The appearance caps a campaign week in which Bush used each day to discuss how his proposals would affect voters at every stage of life. It is part of a new approach in which he seeks to explain his agenda on more personal terms in an effort to keep up with Democratic rival Al Gore. Gore running mate Joe Lieberman also was campaigning in Florida today. Seniors are an especially active and liberal-leaning voting group, particularly in Florida, which is governed by Bush s brother Jeb and a Republican Legislature.