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...many Cuban-Americans Obama can poach from the GOP; and Obama volunteer Jose Realin thinks he can deliver them. Realin, 38, a bail bondsman and a lifelong registered Republican now on the Democrat's side, was heading out of the Obama campaign office in the 25th on Monday evening to knock on doors in Cuban neighborhoods. "They worry that Obama won't be tough enough with Castro," he said, "but the economy, the war - that stuff is making them a lot more open-minded...
...Monday, Obama, who holds a slight lead over McCain in Florida in most polls, hit Jacksonville, a key pocket of the state's more conservative north. At the same time, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, at the end of the politically fluid I-4 Corridor, McCain held a rally that didn't bode well for his comeback bid for Florida's 27 electoral votes. Bush drew 15,000 people at that site during the 2004 campaign; earlier this month, Obama drew 8,000. For McCain, just over 1,000 showed up. - By Tim Padgett / Miami
...Barack Obama's family tree.) This is the place that briefly renamed its Senator Beer after Obama, where an Obama reggae song is insanely popular, and whose buses are plastered with Obama decals. "U.S. Poll: Why Obama is the world's choice," screamed the front-page headline from Monday's Daily Nation newspaper. "Democrat widely seen as the only leader who can change the way America relates to other countries," read the sub-head...
Obama's campaign made its final push in the city Monday night, with an appearance by running mate Joe Biden and several members of the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. Significantly, the appearance was in a heavily white, blue collar district in South Philadelphia, where Hillary Clinton won in the primary by a large margin and the McCain campaign hopes to pick up enough conservative, Catholic Democratic voters to help depress Obama's margin of victory in the city...
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden both stumped in the state Monday, after Obama drew 30,000 people to a late-night rally in Springfield on Saturday. That's normally Republican territory, but Obama's crowd, spilling out of the high school football stadium, dwarfed the recent rally there for Sarah Palin. "It's kind of upsetting - we just got the Bass Pro parking lot," lamented one Republican...