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In 2000, Bush won Nevada's four electoral votes by a mere four percentage points.(John F. Kerry's, John Edwards's manipulation of public concern over Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site )(Brief Article)

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* In 2000, Bush won Nevada's four electoral votes by a mere four percentage points. John Kerry is trying to take the state's votes away from him by playing on Nevada's fears about the burial of nuclear waste beneath Yucca Mountain. The burial plans, he says, are "a symbol of the recklessness and the arrogance" of the Bush administration. It so happens that Kerry supported the 1987 law that led scientists to conclude that Yucca Mountain is the safest place in America to store the ...

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