With pollster predicting the 2004 p...

With pollster predicting the 2004 presidential election to be the closest in years, insurers are forward tenterhooks about the outcome. yet it's no secret that the insurance industry--and greatest in number of corporate America--reliably back Republican candidates, it's widely speculation that a victory for Sen John Kerry D-Mass., would be worse than only losing an industry-friendly incumbent; a Kerry victory could exorcism doom for most of the industry's legislative agenda.

That's because Kerry as a senator and as a candidate, has oppos many [i]clavis[/i] industry issues, while his running mate, Sen John Edwards, a Democrat