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‘Business as usual — both candidates gave a definite ‘‘maybe” to everything

are doing pretty good," said Ms. Davis, an office manager at the Department of Social Services in Washington. "People just need to stop having battles with each other and try to get along,” she added. "It seems like everybody had their cause. We need to stop all the fussing and fighting and shooting and get on with it, get a life."

"I am upbeat about the future," declared Mr. Ellis, a marketing executive at Blueridge Technologies, Inc., in Hint Hill. "The country is going in the right direction in a lot of ways." But he is bothered by "a lack of civility" in the nation's politics and the tendency of political groups, right and left, to "demonize the opposition."

The Issues

Asked what specific issues concern them most, the Rappahannock voters came up with some concerns that are rarely discussed by the presidential candidates, and they virtually

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