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Jeb Bush was booed (see last item) last night at the St. Pete Times Forum when introduced during Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals. If the Bush name is unpopular with the sports fan demographic in the area one political observer deemed decisive in the upcoming election, then W is definitely in trouble:

David Beattie, a Democratic pollster based in Florida, is keeping his eye on the Tampa area. The Tampa media market is the state's largest, bigger even than Miami. It's located on the Interstate 4 corridor in central Florida that represents the state's key political battleground. In the past six presidential elections, whoever carried the Tampa county of Hillsborough has claimed the state. The area's population in many ways mirrors that of the country.

"Whoever wins Tampa is going to be president of the United States," Beattie predicts.