Word: baye
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...electoral-vote rich Florida, ground zero is the unpredictable Interstate-4 corridor which stretches across the state's mid-section from Daytona Beach on the east coast through Walt Disney World to Tampa Bay in the west. Along this swath, Tampa Bay is known as the state's bellwether: since 1980, as Tampa Bay votes, so has the state, according to political analyst Susan MacManus, distinguished professor at University of South Florida...
...Final polls showed Obama and McCain tied in Tampa Bay at 46-46 coming into today's election. The more Republican-leaning eastern end of the corridor gives McCain a slight edge...
...must pay on average for annual coverage. The only long-term solution is to eliminate insurance companies through a national single-payer health plan, or "Medicare for all." Without the profit motive and with Medicare's demonstrated efficiency, enough would be saved to insure everyone. Richard K. Staggenborg, COOS BAY...
Major League Baseball commissioner BUD SELIG, on suspending Game 5 of the World Series between Tampa Bay and Philadelphia because of torrential rain...
...election, at polling sites like the Coral Reef public-library branch in the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay, the early voter tended to be an elderly white Republican male. Four years later, the early voter enduring the long lines that snake around the Coral Reef branch is more apt to be a younger, female, African-American Democrat, like Tonia Birgin, 34, a hospital ultrasound technician. "This being Florida, you never know what's going to happen with an election," says Birgin, holding an umbrella to shield her from the midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside...