Posted on 03/26/2011 4:45:40 PM PDT by Brandonmark
Get ready for another huge presidential battle in Florida.
Despite the drubbing Democrats took in 2010, nobody is underestimating Barack Obama's ability to take the state that Republicans need to capture the White House — or the difficulty he'll have winning it again.
"Florida is always in play. Neither party can take Florida for granted, but Marco Rubio proved that our voters tend to be center-right and antideficit spending voters,'' said Republican strategist Sally Bradshaw, a top adviser to Mitt Romney in 2008 and now an adviser to expected candidate Haley Barbour. "Obama's going to have to roll up his sleeves if he wants to convince voters here to return him to the White House. Look at Charlie Crist. We're not usually fooled twice."
In 2008, Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter to win more than 50 percent of the vote in Florida.
He won America's biggest battleground state by nearly 3 percentage points after launching the largest grass-roots campaign Florida had ever witnessed, and outspending John McCain on TV ads roughly $36 million to $17 million. And that was in a national climate where Obama was the candidate of change and long-standing GOP strongholds like Indiana and North Carolina went Democratic.
Winning Florida will take another herculean effort, and there's every sign that Obama and the Democratic National Committee intend to undertake it. The campaign had a stunning 600 paid staffers in Florida on Election Day 2010, and 2012 on-the-ground organizing is likely to start a year earlier this time.
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
Every state will be a battleground state in 2012.
Ooops there are those vile violence charged words again,
It is a battleground where Democrats will be slaughtered like Custer’s men at Little BigHorn.
And probably the last for the next 20 years...
I live in Central Florida and I can tell you Obama has no chance here and Sen Nelson is history as well.
Okay. Adios to all three next year. The smarmy leftist Bill Nelson doesn't even pretend to be middle of the road.
One reason why the republicans won so much in the midterms was because they vetted candidates, most of whom were very good candidates who could defend their fiscally conservative ideals, values and principles with intelligence and logic and with facts and statistics to back up their claims.
This should be the blueprint for all GOP candidates in all future races.
The dumbo big-eared pig will have trouble winning any state besides CA and NY.
And that’s not certain.
He wants to play commie organizer, fine. We can play patriot.
Nelson=Toast
Oh, I forgot to mention that donning a Yankees ballcap is no way to positively influence FL conservatives and independents.
On you, Bill, it looks good!
This is also encouraging...
Last cycle, when exit polls showed Rubio won 55 percent of the Hispanic vote in Florida
It will be. It will be very difficult for Obama to be re-elected without Florida. Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, New Hampshire and Missouri will be safely in the republican column. They’ll also have to fight for Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
No hope of that happening for the top spot, unfortunately.
We'll get whoever the first few states shove down our throats. Probably a weak establishment candidate like Palin or Romney.
Hmm. What % of Hisanpics are Cuban in FL?
It won’t be a battleground if we can get this out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2695215/posts
Jews are liberal, but the idea of invading Israel to make them give up to the Palis..., nope that’s not going to fly in Palm Beach.
If so it’s in the bag for the culture of death.
Hmm. Another Jimmy Carter comparison.
Let’s hope for similar results.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.