John McCain fights for life in Florida as Barack Obama takes battle to Republican territory

Source: Telegraph (UK)

Beset by political storms and clinging to "Joe the Plumber" as his latest electoral lifebelt, John McCain is desperately defending states won by George W Bush four years ago as he tries to keep his White House hopes afloat.

In Florida, the Republican is being forced to devote valuable time, resources and manpower to try to claw back Barack Obama's lead in a state that had seemed safely in his grasp before the financial meltdown of the last month.

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Florida has been badly hit by the housing crisis, slump in tourism and collapse in the stock markets that has hit the savings account of its large retiree population. As early voting begins tomorrow, Mr Obama returns to the state to campaign jointly for the first time with Hillary Clinton since their titanic battle for the Democratic nomination.

Significantly, they will be appearing in Tampa and Orlando, the two biggest cities on the I-4 highway that bisects Florida, splitting its traditionally Republican-voting north and more Democrat-leaning south.


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Way too many McCain signs here. Has me worried. My granddaughter attended a birthday party for a child of a AA and a white, they had a McCain sign in their yard. Lots of AA relatives came to the party, some for McCain. I wonder if they are doing this to blend in with the predominately white neighbors since all on their street have McCain signs. Will they go to polls and secretly vote for Obama? I hope so.

Basically, in order to live in a community and be assured of receiving the services your township/community provided, you had to register and profess loyalty to the repukes. The result would be a repuke stranglehold, where no Democrats were even willing to challenge repuke candidates, and low turnouts became the norm that kept the status quo repukes entrenched in office. Recent economic events, the wars, and the disgust with Shrub in general, have allowed many many "hidden Democrats" to re-register and publicly support the Democratic Party.

doesn't mean I'd VOTE Republican.