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Florida Battle Ground State? Barack Obama can Soon be Saying Goodbye to the Sunshine State
Scared Monkeys ^ | September 13, 2008

Posted on 09/13/2008 12:49:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Florida is close to being taken off the table as a battleground state and painted red.

Could Barack Obama being saying goodbye to Florida? With 350 paid staffers, 50 field offices and spending an estimated $8 million in campaign ads in the “Battle ground” Sunshine state, Obama may soon be saying goodbye to Florida. With all the money, assets and resources used in Florida there is little to show for Team Obama. As stated in the St. Petersburg Times, Obama is farther behind in the state than John Kerry was at this point in 2004, even though McCain began buying Florida TV ads only last week.

Presently, Real Clear Politics has McCain/Palin slightly ahead in the electoral college.

He is farther behind in the state than John Kerry was at this point in 2004, even though McCain began buying Florida TV ads only last week. By this time in 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign had spent $13-million on Florida TV. In the rolling average of Florida polls compiled by the Web site RealClearPolitics.com, Obama has never taken the lead over McCain in Florida, and the latest average shows him behind by 5 percentage points. They were tied in early August.

Four Florida polls came out this week, with one showing a tied race, the others showing McCain leading by 5 to 8 percentage points.

“They’ve had everything going for them — momentum, enthusiasm, money, a complicit national press, a stiff wind at his back for a long time, and he hasn’t been able pull ahead in Florida,” said Republican strategist Alberto Martinez of Tallahassee. “I think Florida is one of those states that’s taken off the board pretty soon, as they start focusing resources on states they can win.”

According to The Other McCain there are three main reasons for Obama’s failings in Florida … the military vote, the Cuban-American vote and the geezer vote. Of course how does one expect to attract the senior vote when Obama mocks McCain’s disability for not being able to use email. Also, as discussed at The American Spectator it is remarkable just how thrown off their game and disorientated the Obama campaign has become since McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his VP.

I’ll leave it to others to fret over Sarah Palin’s unpreparedness, and instead point out how unprepared Democrats were for Palin. The most revealing fact is that, when Team Obama listed nine GOP vice-presidential possibilities as “The Next Cheney,” Palin’s name wasn’t on the list. The reason Democrats’ initial attacks were so wildly off-target was that the Obama campaign hadn’t prepared a full oppo-research file on Palin.

The Palin effect phenomenon continues as several states where Obama had leads are all but dwindling. By no stretch of the imagination is the election in the bag for Republicans; however, the trending is in their favor and the McCain campaign is hardly going to make the inexperienced mistakes that the Obama campaign has made.


TOPICS: Florida; Campaign News; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2008; election; electionpresident; elections; mccain; mccainpalin; obama; palin; sarahpalin
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1 posted on 09/13/2008 12:49:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hopefully Ohio will be in the same situtation soon. Then we can move the battleground states to more Democratic territories like MI, PA, and WI.


2 posted on 09/13/2008 12:52:03 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Florida is filled with older Americans.

Older Americans don’t like Obama.


3 posted on 09/13/2008 12:52:50 PM PDT by brownsfan (Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Chieftain

I heard that Sarah will not be coming to McCain’s visit Monday to jacksonville FL...We had to move the event to a Larger venue cause they are expecting so many people to see him!


4 posted on 09/13/2008 12:54:07 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: brownsfan

And the older we get, the less we like him.:)


5 posted on 09/13/2008 12:54:36 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He is farther behind in the state than John Kerry was at this point in 2004, even though McCain began buying Florida TV ads only last week

Blood in the water!

6 posted on 09/13/2008 12:54:40 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("Spare me all the phony talk about change." Senator Barack Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Florida is close to being taken off the table as a battleground state and painted red.

WHOOT!!! This is very good news! =o)

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7 posted on 09/13/2008 12:54:47 PM PDT by chaos_5 (http://www.cafepress.com/chaos_5)
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Plus, Rasmussen just moved MO. from leans GOP to likely GOP today. It still comes down to who takes 2 out of 3-CO, NV, and NM.

Personally, I would send Palin the hockey mom into MN, MI, and WI where Hockey is king and try and flip some Blue states thereby reducing the margin of error.

8 posted on 09/13/2008 12:54:58 PM PDT by MattinNJ (When we lost Reagan, we lost a King. We now have our Queen. All hail Queen Palin.)
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To: Always Right

“mcCain only bought ads in FL since last week”...HUH? they have been on forever here in Jax!


9 posted on 09/13/2008 12:55:32 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: brownsfan

“Older Americans don’t like Obama.”

Don’t us’ns deserve our own hyphen?

Older-Americans?


10 posted on 09/13/2008 12:59:45 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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Older Americans don’t like Obama.

They don't like punks who act 20 years younger than their age. Obama's 47 years old and needs to start acting like it.

I'm in my 30's, and I think Obama is a punk.

11 posted on 09/13/2008 1:00:50 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Palin in 08)
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To: brownsfan

Not to mention the military!


12 posted on 09/13/2008 1:01:40 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Read my lipstick")
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To: ModelBreaker

Nope. They are Americans. Hyphens are for liberals.


13 posted on 09/13/2008 1:03:44 PM PDT by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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Don’t us’ns deserve our own hyphen? Older-Americans?

"Older" must be one of those 57 states.   ;-)

14 posted on 09/13/2008 1:03:49 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Welcome PUMAs!)
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To: ModelBreaker

No, because hyphenated “Americans” aren’t real Americans.


15 posted on 09/13/2008 1:06:12 PM PDT by BobbyT
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excellent news and we’re working hard to make it a reality. Bye bye, Obama; it’s o-ver.


16 posted on 09/13/2008 1:14:13 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (don't worry, they only want to take water out of the other guy's side of the bucket.)
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To: MattinNJ

Dont see how winning CO, NV, NM gives the election to McCain only 19EV.

Give those three to McCain and BHO wins by winning either OH or VA.


17 posted on 09/13/2008 1:28:43 PM PDT by Bailee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Optimistically looking for a 57 state landslide....a


18 posted on 09/13/2008 1:33:43 PM PDT by Born In America (Affirmative action is no way to elect a President, now or ever....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait till the “geezer” voters see Barry’s ad mocking them and their lack of computer savy. If I was the McCain campaign, I would run Barry’s ad. :)


19 posted on 09/13/2008 1:33:48 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: Always Right

We need Mccain/Palin here in Michigan, there is such an opportunity here. The msm like to paint our state as hating the GOP because of our economy; the reality here is that Gov. Granholm is rightly seen as turning Michigan into a petri dish of liberal economic policies which didn’t work with lbj and has decimated our great state. In addition, the crap that is going on in Detroit with Kwame “can i text you sometime?” Kilpatrick. This all reflects on Barack Hussein:We can win here !


20 posted on 09/13/2008 1:34:24 PM PDT by Onelife Onecountry
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