St. Pete Times: Dems should forget Panhandle

The St. Pete Times recommends to the Democratic presidential candidates to forget about the Florida Panhandle and concentrate south of Interstate 4.

If you’re looking for Florida Democrats fired up about Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, you might want to look somewhere besides Florida’s Panhandle.

“Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? You could flip a coin. I’m not too sure either one of them is going to run very well up in North Florida,” said former Democratic state Rep. Dwight Stansel, a farmer from Wellborn who is running for Suwanee County tax collector.

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