Floridians vote...

No one needs to tell a Floridian how important it is to vote. We are constantly reminded of our states election blunders and the hundred of votes that decided the President. This increased voter accountability results in many potentially adverse effects. Voters here scrutinize candidates and thanks to the states 27 electorates there are many opportunities for candidate “face time.”

Florida has historically had high voter turn out in elections. The strength of the primary vote tells us that party bases here are strong.

The economy is the #1 issue nation but the state has been hit hard by the housing bubble pop especially with increasing insurance cost in the region. Faith is running low when it comes to economic topics statewide. The politically fresh-faced Obama tends to have the lead on this topic but that may not hold true in Florida. Remember, Mitt Romney with his deep seeded economic background did well in this state

The NYTimes recent article titled "As Homes Are Lost, Fears That Votes Will Be," Too outlined the challenge for exciting ex-homeowners in this election. A logistical problem, many of those displaced citizens were unaware that they needed to update their voter registration. “Our biggest concern is that many of these voters will stay home or that poll workers will give misinformation,” said Rosemary E. Rodriguez, the chairwoman of the federal Election Assistance Commission, which oversees voting.


What’s race got to do with it?

A constant challenge for both candidates in the state is the Jewish population. They are unimpressed with the Palin pick but even wearier of all things Obama. These are Hillary people. The Clintons understand and respect this demographic. Former President Clinton said that he would not campaign during the Jewish holiday Rosh Hasanah that will take him off line from sundown Monday to sunrise Wednesday.

An elderly woman recently told the Daily Show, bluntly, "A lot of Jewish white people here will not vote for a black man." Well there you have it!

The 1st presidential debate held at the University of Mississippi failed to address a crucial section of foreign policy… Iran/Israel. Click here for the complete transcript.

McCain did say, “Now we cannot a second Holocaust. Let's just make that very clear. “

Obama responded with, “Senator McCain is absolutely right, we cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran. It would be a game changer. Not only would it threaten Israel, a country that is our stalwart ally, but it would also create an environment in which you could set off an arms race in this Middle East.”

McCain brought up Obama’s desire “sit down with Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Raul Castro without precondition. Without precondition… Ahmadinejad, who is, Ahmadinejad, who is now in New York, talking about the extermination of the State of Israel, of wiping Israel off the map, and we're going to sit down, without precondition, across the table, to legitimize and give a propaganda platform to a person that is espousing the extermination of the state of Israel, and therefore then giving them more credence in the world arena and therefore saying, they've probably been doing the right thing, because you will sit down across the table from them and that will legitimize their illegal behavior.”

This was as close as an answer the Jewish community received on each candidate’s stance on Israel.