Friday, October 17, 2008

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.

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