This year the Everglades is at the center of Florida’s politics with a rhetorical battle over an anticipated Everglades clean-up by sugar companies. President Clinton’s commitment to tax sugar producers for this effort seems to have the popular edge over Bob Dole’s stance of citizen taxation. Sandy Tolan reports on Florida’s expected sweet vote for Democrats.
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