This is the election in which the voters should fire the pollsters or the pollsters should fire the voters. The polls are unstable and frequently contradict each other.
Old rules fly out the window.
Presidential candidates campaign in places you wouldn't expect to find them. Florida is one of those places. The conventional wisdom says George W. Bush shouldn't be battling for what's supposed to be a rock-solid Republican state that his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, should deliver. The battle for Florida challenges the old assumption that the movement of so many Americans to the Sun Belt was good for the Republican Party. During the 1980s, that proved to be true.