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...They still could, of course. McCain, whose Friday visit was his first to Florida since June, plans to make a big push there these last two weeks. "I don't really think he's behind," says Allison DeFoor, a member of McCain's Florida advisory board. "I don't see the [poll] math, frankly. But if there is one thing the McCain campaign is very good at, it's knowing when the election is," he adds, noting McCain's come-from-behind victory in the Florida primary. "He's a closer." Republican political consultant Cory Tilley, a top aide...
...starters, many Florida Republicans grouse privately, McCain's national campaign could start listening to current state GOP leaders. The last time Beltway Republicans really had to break a sweat in Florida was during the fierce 2000 recount battle, and many have come to take the state for granted since then - assuming, for instance, that their previously superior ground game will once again prove decisive. One result is that they may not be lending enough of an ear to people like McCain's Florida campaign director, Arlene DiBenigno, another top Crist aide, who can counsel them on Florida's new political...
...DiBenigno's coordination skills have come under scrutiny of late, but LeMieux, who thinks McCain can still win Florida, insists that "Arlene is an excellent campaign strategist" who helped forge Crist's image as a "bipartisan problem solver who stands out in juxtaposition to today's Washington...
...state GOP gathering over the weekend, a county party official asked Crist why he hadn't yet appeared in any ads in support of McCain. "I haven't been asked," Crist said, before stressing that he would "do anything they ask me to." It's not as if McCain's campaign doesn't have recent examples of how the Crist-Florida bond works. Last summer, pundits predicted that McCain's call for oil-drilling off Florida's coast would alienate huge swaths of the state's generally eco-conscious electorate. But after Crist backed McCain on the subject, a majority...
...like me," says Grain. Consequently, hyper-partisan campaigning has become a turnoff for a growing number of Floridians of all political stripes. Or, as Sarasota Democratic Party Chairman Rita Ferrandino puts it, Obama may be drawing local Republicans to his camp because he "reminds people of Crist more than McCain does...