From the St. Petersburg Times:

Five weeks ago, the St. Petersburg Times convened a group of Tampa Bay voters who were undecided about the presidential election. Their strong distrust of Barack Obama suggested it was a group ripe for John McCain to win over.

Not anymore. The group has swung dramatically, if unenthusiastically, toward Democrat Obama. Most of them this week cited the same reason: Sarah Palin.

I feel good about Florida.  I really do.  It doesn’t look good on the surface, but I’ve got a gut feeling that we’ll flip it this year.  Which is good, because I have a real bad feeling about Michigan.  I don’t think they’ve ever shaken the race riots of ’67 from their heads.

You know, looking back on this, Romney may have actually been a solid choice for McCain.  With the Wall St. meltdown, you get his economic chops, and he may have been enough to solidly flip MI into McCain’s column, forcing Obama to play some serious offense in a different state to make up those 17 EVs.