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I am making a bold prediction, but I believe that Romney will take Florida tomorrow.

I know Ryan already posted about McCain’s big endorsement from Governor Crist but the truth is the only real endorsement that matters in Florida is Jeb Bush’s and it is evident that he will not show his support for anyone prior to the state’s primary. While Crist may be able to help get slightly bigger crowds for McCain during stump speeches, he cannot overcome McCain’s two biggest challenges-he is too liberal and is doing nothing to address the housing crisis in his speeches while in Florida. On Meet the Press yesterday McCain said that the economic challenges the country faces are temporary and will be overcome; this may be true, but for the millions of voters whose houses have been foreclosed and whose stock portfolios are dwindling in value these words provide no consolation. Mitt Romney has the economy as his issue and as we can see from Michigan, McCain’s downplaying of the current state of the nations economic health does not benefit him.

Although the polls are not showing this, I believe that Joe Scarborough was right in his prediction today that Mitt Romney will win tomorrow. Many of the voters in central Florida who want to vote for Mike Huckabee have realized in the past two days that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain and like Rudy, he simply does not represent their values. Additionally it appears that because of Romney’s economic experience many of the economic conservatives who had been supporting Rudy or Thompson are turning his way.

Despite McCain’s untrue attacks on Romney’s Iraq War record, he has been unable to change the topic of discussion. No matter how many times he mentions his support of the surge, it does not make the thousands of foreclosed houses in Florida go away. The issue on the forefront of everyones minds in Florida is the economy and nothing McCain can do will change that. Let us not forget where Rudy Giuliani currently sits in the polls, a distant third place. Rudy Giuliani has done nothing but espouse his national security experience for the past month in Florida and it has done nothing for him in the polls.

As long as the issue is the economy in the forefront of people’s minds Romney will out perform his competition.

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