Obama Puts Money, Manpower in Florida as Polls Show Close Race

It's good to see the Obama campaign stepping it up in Florida (FiveThirtyEight.com shows Obama as 84% likely to win the state):

 

Obama Puts Money, Manpower in Florida as Polls Show Close Race

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=azZry8NsHBhw&refer=home

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama's campaign is pouring $39 million into Florida and sending some of its most senior people there in a bid to win the 27 electoral votes of a state that has voted Republican in the last two presidential elections.

Florida is considered a must-win state for Republican candidate John McCain, and polls show the race is close, less than three weeks before Election Day.

``There's an opening we see in Florida, and we like our chances,'' Temo Figueroa, national Latino vote director for Obama, an Illinois Democrat, said in an interview.