The American Spectator

DiBenigno should know what she’s talking about on this one. She’s a Cuban-American whose maiden name is Diaz and who came up in Miami. “We don’t vote on that issue alone just because that’s what our grandparents did,” she said.

For all their disagreements, Marsh and DiBenigno agree on where the race will be decided in Florida. Be prepared for election night commentators to drone on about the I-4 Corridor, which crosses Central Florida from Daytona Beach to St. Petersburg. This is the most politically competitive part of the fourth largest state in the nation. The northern part of the state is McCain country, and it’s Obama in a walk down south (except for the Ft. Myers area on the southwest coast).

It will be critical for both candidates to get their voters to turn out election day. Both camps say they will contest the entire state. But don’t look for Obama to be giving many speeches in Pensacola, or for McCain to be polishing his act in Boca Raton. Here in Tampa, however, we’ll likely be tripping over both of them a lot between now and November 4.