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Popkey: Canyon County Voters Key for Sali Win

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If Bill Sali doesn't hold one of the nation's most solid GOP seats in Congress, it will be the voters of Canyon County, especially women, who fail him. It's not a matter of Sali losing the Republican stronghold in the 1st District. Sali will carry Canyon County. But if he doesn't win big, Democrat Larry Grant appears poised to win by eroding the GOP vote. I spent Tuesday and Wednesday talking to women voters in Nampa, Idaho's No. 2 city. Based on those unscientific interviews and last week's poll showing the race a dead heat, I think Sali's got problems in Canyon, the GOP's keystone county. Though Ada County delivers more total votes than Canyon, it's split. Kootenai County is nearly as big as Canyon, but also is divided. Canyon provided the biggest majorities for GOP congressional candidates in every election since the party retook the district in 1994, ranging from a low of 56 percent in 1996 to 73 percent in 2004 -- Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman.

Question: What percentage of the vote do you think Bill Sali and Larry Grant will get?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.