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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...
...McCain campaign is writing off the black vote, some say Obama is taking it for granted. It wasn't until three weeks ago that Obama's campaign bought two half-page Courier ads for $3,000 each, and a half-page ad in Cherry's other newspaper, the Daytona Times, for $1,500. The Democratic National Committee and Obama's campaign, Cherry says, bought a 60-second "register to vote" ad to run on WPUL-AM in Daytona Beach five times a day, for seven days, ending on Oct. 5, the eve of Floridians' last day to register to participate...
...Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call on Oct. 7 put Feeney in 6th place on its top 10 list of most endangered congressional incumbents. The seat, House District 24 in Republican-leaning East Central Florida, includes portions of the Orlando metro area, Daytona Beach and Kennedy Space Center...
...pump the stormwater out quickly because adjacent bodies of water are also above normal level. "We're in unchartered territory. I've never seen it this wet," says Bournique, executive director of the Indian River Citrus League, which includes 900 grower-members from Palm Beach County north to the Daytona Beach area. "It really was a one-in-100-year rainfall event for this region...
...cars are armed, but the track is booby-trapped. Manhole covers may explode as the cons drive over them; guards with machine guns open fire at Hennessey's command; one car gets napalmed. It's like al Qaeda at Daytona. Naturally, several of the participants, racing careers are ended prematurely - beheading is the movie's favorite form of early retirement - which forces competing drivers to become occasional allies, as when Ames and Machine Gun Joe "play a little offense," teaming up to demolish one of Hennessey's fire-spewing trucks. Round and round they go, till...