Florida Leaning Towards Barack Obama Because of Sarah Palin
Six weeks ago, the St. Petersburg Times convened a group of Tampa Bay, Florida voters who were undecided about the presidential election. Their strong suspicion of Barack Obama suggested it was a group ripe for John McCain to win over and to put him over the top for Florida.
Not anymore. This Florida group has swung dramatically, if unenthusiastically, toward the Democrat Barack Obama. Most of them this week cited the same reason: John McCain’s running mateSarah Palin.
“The one thing that frightens me more than anything else are the ideologues. We’ve seen too many,” said 80-year-old Air Force veteran Donn Spegal, a lifelong Republican from St. Petersburg, who sees John McCain’s new running mate as the kind of “wedge issue” social conservative that has made him disenchanted with the Republican party.
“I’m truly offended by Sarah Palin,” said Republican Philinia Lehr, 37, of Largo, Florida a full-time mother with a nursing degree who voted for PresidentGeorge Bush in 2004. Like Sarah Palin, she has five children and she doesn’t buy that the Alaska governor can adequately balance her family and the vice presidency.
“You’re somebody’s mom and what are you going to do, say, ‘Excuse me, country, hold on?’ … She’s preaching that she’s this mom of the year and taking that poor little baby all over everywhere. And, you know, what she’s doing to her 17-year-old daughter is just appalling.” Lehr said she’s bothered by the way Palin’s pregnant daughter has been brought into the national spotlight.
Skeptics like these in Florida are ripe to put Barack Obama over John McCain in Florida and ultimately the entire election. While the pick of Sarah Palin is playing well for conservatives, it is the undecideds John McCain needed and his campaign stunt did not work.
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