And then McCain didn’t choose Charlie Crist, Florida’s governor, or Mitt Romney, by far the most popular V.P. candidate among Florida’s voters, as his running mate. He picked Sarah Palin, who, whatever her many other virtues, sat in a pew at the Wasilla Bible Church just two Sundays ago as her pastor introduced David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus. (Sample Brickner: “The Jewish community, in particular, has a difficult time understanding this reality,” that Jesus and his disciples were Jewish.) Palin was also spotted wearing a Pat Buchanan button at a 1999 luncheon. Pat Buchanan! You learn something new nearly every time Buchanan opens his mouth on MSNBC, but the guy did just write a book arguing that Winston Churchill didn’t need to go to war against Adolf Hitler. So while the Alaska governor might play pretty well across most of America, South Florida in-boxes are filling with e-mails like this one from Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski: “Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan, a right-winger or as many Jews call him: a Nazi sympathizer.”
Meanwhile, Biden has been calling himself a zayde and telling Floridians they will soon be mishpocheh as he recounts how he took his sons to visit Dachau. On Labor Day, he told an audience in Deerfield Beach: “I give you my word as a Biden, I would not have given up [my] job to be Barack Obama's vice-president if I didn't in my gut and in my heart and in my head know that Barack Obama is exactly where I am on Israel.” If your grandma’s Boca buddies start absorbing this, Florida could well wind up in the driver’s seat this election.
From your lips...
...UPDATE: o hai!
Hillary is set to campaign in Florida for Obama on Monday, a source familiar with her schedule tells me.
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