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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, June 16, 2025

Observercast

Swing State Florida’s Up-For-Grabs Region

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BY FROMA HARROP LADY LAKE, FL – Lunching at Applebee’s in this hyper-groomed shopping center, I’m tempted to buttonhole some of the retirees enjoying their leisure as Fox News jabbers down from the bar. This, after all, is a gathering place near the storied retirement community known as The Villages, a huge conservative enclave smack in the middle of Florida’s I-4 corridor. Interstate 4 is 130 miles of congested, accident-prone highway connecting Tampa near the […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.