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...Economic conservatives like Grover Norquist, who hate government and taxes above all, see a return to first principles as the solution. "Bush deviated from the Reagan Republican vision in spending, regulation and in empire," he says, before delivering a backhanded slight to McCain: "We know that when you run as Reagan, it works." Norquist's rebel army is backed by the power gabbers of right-wing talk like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. They blame the Republican catastrophes of 2006 and 2008 on a party that abandoned its values. The party, not its ideology, failed, goes their mantra. It therefore...
...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
...close-in suburbs, which are almost certain to swing for Obama, but are important mathematically. If Obama wins here by a blowout, it will cancel out any gains by McCain in the west and central area. If McCain can hold Obama's margins here down, however, he has a slight chance of picking up enough votes elsewhere to carry the state...
...McCain has 20 years of experience that crosses over into every community in this state, especially Cuban Americans." She believes that informal voter surveys today show Florida's Cuban-American vote is holding steady enough for McCain to give him the state, where Obama has actually held a slight lead in the polls in recent weeks. And she rejects this year's popular media notion that the Cuban-American vote is somehow splitting between older, more hardline exiles and a younger, more moderate generation...
...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...