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Bush, Kerry Make Final Push in Swing States

By Scott Horsley, Don Gonyea

Published October 31, 2004 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

With final polls showing the race still deadlocked, President Bush spent much of the weekend in Florida, making a special appeal for votes from Miami's Cuban-American community. Sen. John Kerry traveled from the Midwest to Florida and prepares for a final, frantic round of swing states Monday before he heads to Boston Tuesday to watch the returns. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea and NPR's Scott Horsley.

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Scott Horsley

Scott Horsley is NPR's Chief Economics Correspondent. He reports on ups and downs in the national economy as well as fault lines between booming and busting communities.

Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.