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Early Miami Voting Giving Boost To Obama
By Sherwood Ross (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)
This reporter’s sample is somewhat biased as a number of presumably McCain supporters --- elderly naturalized citizens from Cuba --- could not express themselves in English. One Hispanic male, Ignacio Barroso of Miami, however, spoke English well enough: “We need a change. I think the GOP administration is too far to the right favoring capital and large corporations. There’s not enough GDP (gross domestic product) trickling down to the people.” McClatchey newspapers Oct. 23 reported Republican legislators in Tallahassee three years ago claimed that early voting was too expensive and “set new statewide standards limiting the number of polling sites and their hours of operation,” trimming early voting from 12 to eight hours per day. The results, McClatchey reported, have resulted in waits of from two to five hours for early voting.Pollsters currently give Obama a very slight edge over McCain in Florida and the race is expected to be a tossup. Given the number of independents that say they support Obama and the larger number of Republicans than Democrats switching sides, Florida could end up in the Democratic column Nov. 4th. #
(Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based reporter and press agent for non-profit organizations. Reach him at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com )
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