newbitech
01-23-2012, 09:05 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-presents-a-different-challenge-for-gop-presidential-candidates/2012/01/22/gIQA5AmoIQ_story.html?hpid=z1
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-presents-a-different-challenge-for-gop-presidential-candidates/2012/01/22/gIQA5AmoIQ_story.html?hpid=z1)
And from the day of the South Carolina primary through Saturday, Florida voters can — and will — vote at local polling places. That makes winning every day’s national media story — as former House speaker Newt Gingrich very clearly did on the first day of early voting in Florida — absolutely critical. The breadth of early voting across Florida makes every day between now and Saturday a mini-primary day.
And when Florida political types talk about a candidate’s winning math in the Sunshine State, they talk about it by media market. That conversations begins — and virtually ends — with the “I-4 corridor,” a highway that runs across the central part of the state, connecting Orlando on the northeastern side to Tampa on its southwestern end.
At least half — yes, half! — of the Republican primary vote will come from the Orlando and Tampa media markets, making winning the I-4 corridor tantamount to winning the state.
Not that it matters.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-presents-a-different-challenge-for-gop-presidential-candidates/2012/01/22/gIQA5AmoIQ_story.html?hpid=z1)
And from the day of the South Carolina primary through Saturday, Florida voters can — and will — vote at local polling places. That makes winning every day’s national media story — as former House speaker Newt Gingrich very clearly did on the first day of early voting in Florida — absolutely critical. The breadth of early voting across Florida makes every day between now and Saturday a mini-primary day.
And when Florida political types talk about a candidate’s winning math in the Sunshine State, they talk about it by media market. That conversations begins — and virtually ends — with the “I-4 corridor,” a highway that runs across the central part of the state, connecting Orlando on the northeastern side to Tampa on its southwestern end.
At least half — yes, half! — of the Republican primary vote will come from the Orlando and Tampa media markets, making winning the I-4 corridor tantamount to winning the state.
Not that it matters.