Today, the Tropicana Trail is a little quieter–but no less fascinating. After voting in Washington, D.C. this morning on a series of emergency war-funding bills, Obama returns to Florida for a 4:00 p.m. event at the B’nai Torah synagogue in Boca Raton. Like with yesterday’s Kissimmee appearance, Obama will make an initial pass at appealing to a key Sunshine State community that’s been reluctant to back him in the primaries–that is, Jewish voters, who make up five percent of the electorate here and who, as the New York Times reports this morning, have been especially susceptible to the false “Obama is a pro-Palestinian, un-American Muslim” rumors that have swamped the state in the absence of any actual Democratic campaign. We’ll return this evening with a dispatch from Boca on Obama’s first attempt to battle back.
