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...Introduced as "the next President and the former President," the two bounded onto the stage together on a jarringly chilly Florida evening, sharing wide grins and the occasional backslap. They appeared in the state that has been a symbol of the nation's divisive politics since the 2000 recount and is now 2008's biggest up-for-grabs political prize...
...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 the library. "This one's too important not to make sure my vote gets counted right...
...just bankers and racers who are feeling the effects of the trickle down recession. After extensive research, Julie and Joe Dalli moved from central Florida to Charlotte about a year ago with plans to open a pizza restaurant that would appeal to 21st century carpetbaggers as well as the "halfbacks," northerners who are moving halfway back after giving up on Florida. "It was Charlotte. We never considered anywhere else," she says. "There were too many positives...
...states and plans to open more than 100 stores in the next two years in Connecticut, Missouri and Texas. The company will have opened 100 new stores by the end of the year, double the number opened last year. Aldi is also making a big push into central Florida, including cities like Sanford. The city's economic development director, Robert Tunis, tried for years to lure grocers to his city, about a half-hour's drive north of Orlando. Sanford's demographics are attractive: its population grew 27%, to about 50,000, between 2000 and 2006. Within a few miles...
...weary and the dispirited who dedicated much of the past 24 months of their lives to this effort. McCain's strategy in these final eight days of the campaign hinges on winning a slew of red states in which Obama currently holds leads of varying sizes in the polls - Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada - and then somehow producing an upset in Pennsylvania, a Blue state that went for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 and where Obama currently boasts a lead in the low double digits...