Laid-off Florida Repub volunteers for Obama


	Laid-off Florida Repub volunteers for Obama

masbury

10-3-2008 9:16 PM

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obama, election, mccain, florida

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Turned off by snark toward community organizers: "These are the people I'm looking to for help."

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He now volunteers here in Pasco County for Senator <A title="More articles about Barack Obama" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Barack Obama</A> of Illinois. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04florida.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin">Madeline Aquanno</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04florida.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin">had planned to vote for Senator <A title="More articles about John McCain." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_mccain/index.html?inline=nyt-per">John McCain</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04florida.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin">But as the economy began to scare her more than terrorism, she reconsidered. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04florida.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin"><P>“Obama is more for the people,” she said, near the pool at her middle-class retirement community in Broward County. “I’m worried about the jobs that are being lost, for my son, my daughter, my granddaughter. 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