Why is Florida so close?

As a Tampa boy, I can offer these possible answers. I mention them as I think they can be overcome.

ONE :Media.. I can tell you there has been a media BLITZ, one where you cannot watch Television without seeing a Romney ad. The same is true for Radio, but TV is aimed at the people who do not listen to talk radio, the, you guessed it, the "independent voter."

TWO: The incompetence of the Florida Democratic party. It is true, we do have one of the worst, the most Blue Dog of Blue Dogs, home of Ms. weaksauce herself, Debbie Wasserman Schulz. Many of these Blue Dogs are NOT being agressive for Obama, as they know they only hold office because they have an opponent that is often a wacko tea party type. It says a lot when the most popular non republican in this state is Charlie Crist, who was willing to drill baby drill before he got ditched for VP in favor of Palin.

THREE: bitterness, on the one hand, there are still many PUMAs here, and also, there are people who wondered why the hell BP was not thrown in chains. Granted, we did have Rick Scott, but we have not seen Rick Scott's cage rattled down here. The badguys have the courts, and they know it. They are even about to fire half the Florida Supreme court so Rick Scott can put in toadies. There is a fantasy I have admittedly, where Obama appoints a special prosecutor for all the vote fraud, one Charlie Crist, who actually, unlike Holder, was a very aggressive Attorney general.

FOUR: Lack of community: Sorry, I have to say it, but many down here in Florida are too lazy and detached to get involved. Many are people that still treat Tampa as the place they retired to, or got a new job, not a community to live in. Compare Charlotte to Tampa, how many people can tell what Tampa looked like? Why? because instead of actually going to the local merchants, the GOP simply took Franklin Street, a series of derelict buildings that used to be the downtown, and made a makeshift area so that the peasants could not come in. Even GOP delegates compared it to Panem in the "hunger games." Yet, where was the outrage, where was the protest that these Cigar afficandos would not even stop at Ybor City, which has shops were Cigars are literally hand rolled? Nowhere, even though we got put on the hook for half a Million dollars.