Obama Organization In Florida

2:53 pm EST May 21st, 2008 | News | 8 Comments

Applying the principles of how he is winning the nomination to the general election. Fancy that.

My gut feeling is that Florida has shifted into light red territory, moving from its slight blue state in 1996 and toss-up in 2000/2004. Palm Beach/Broward/Dade counties in the south are where all the Democrats are (northern transplants, American blacks and immigrant Haitians and Jamaicans) but they seem to have been stalemated by the northern and central Florida conservatives (with slight outliers in urbanized areas like Tampa and Orlando) along with the Cubans down south (although I hope the shift to neutrality for them is real after years of buying Republican spin on how we’re going to take down Castro).

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8 Responses to “Obama Organization In Florida”

  1. Duros62 says:
    May 21, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Found one.</img?

  2. Duros62 says:
    May 21, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Whoops. scratch that.

  3. Duros62 says:
    May 21, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Ollie, you can delete those if you’ll tell me how to post pics again.

  4. Vanessa says:
    May 21, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Obama leads McCain in Polls:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2034087120080521?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

  5. Jet says:
    May 22, 2008 at 8:18 am

    Oliver,

    As an on the ground Dem in Florida working on the FL-8 race for Alan Grayson and vote by mail drives for my county, I disagree with your assessment. It is possible that Florida will go red, but it is not trending that way. Dems turned out 1.7 million to the reps 1.9 in the presidential preference primary, and Dem registration is up is counties all over Florida.

    Solid ground effort coupled with republican burnout could yield the state. It’s certainly the goal, and asses are being busted towards that as we speak.

  6. Enlightened Liberal says:
    May 22, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Keep working Jet, all Dems appreciate it. The turnout is even more impressive considering that Dem primary voters knew their vote wouldn’t count and came out anyway!

  7. Pam says:
    May 26, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    The Problem Obama has is credibility. According to the DNC rules and reaching his “milestone”, he can seat all the delegates from Florida just by writing to the DNC. This is a fabricated political spin on his part. He has a problem with telling the truth. I suggest that you go to the DNC Rules and read them. Also, Tupac Hunter, Obama Campaign Chair and Michigan Senator blocked the revote bill to be even voted on in the Michigan Lesilature. His tactics are very very Bush like. Sorry, if he gets the nomination, I am voting for McCain.

  8. Sean D. Martin says:
    May 27, 2008 at 2:03 am

    Pam: Sorry, if he gets the nomination, I am voting for McCain.

    Let me just ask, do you want McCain as President? Is he someone you would vote for?

    If not, then don’t vote for him. Don’t vote for Obama either, if for some reason you just can’t accept that he’s the Democratic nominee.

    But are you actually so petulant that you’d follow the “if my candidate can’t win, any other candidate from my party must lose” idea?