Betty and David Alcantara and Alice Ventra studied sample ballots while they waited to cast their votes at a municipal center in Pembroke Pines, Fla. yesterday.
(Gina Fontana/ South Florida Sun-Sentinel/ AP)
BATTLEGROUND STATES
Obama focused intently, spent heavily to woo Fla.
Betty and David Alcantara and Alice Ventra studied sample ballots while they waited to cast their votes at a municipal center in Pembroke Pines, Fla. yesterday.
(Gina Fontana/ South Florida Sun-Sentinel/ AP)
TAMPA - Barack Obama badly wanted to defeat John McCain in the state that devastated Democrats eight years ago. (Full article: 829 words)
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