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...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
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...
...north of Kansas City, leading employers there range from a Ford plant to a liberal-arts college. Six different lines were going at the mega Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, some of the queues spilling out onto a parking lot scaled nearly as big as those at a pro-football stadium...
...They're wrapped around the stadium at UCF. Students are voting today," she said. - By Barbara Liston / Orlando...
...audience in the hockey stadium ate it up. "He's a turkey!" one man shouted. "Cook him!" went another. Presidential candidates or their running mates from either party have rarely stopped in Indiana this close to Election Day, because they had little reason to. The Republican bastion hasn't voted for a Democrat since LBJ in 1964. So the very fact that the McCain campaign felt it had to dispatch Palin to rally its base showed just how vulnerable the GOP is this year. "Everything is showing this thing is absolutely in a dead heat, and suddenly, Indiana makes...