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Little Change
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Published: November 8, 2008
Settle down, supporters of President-elect Barack Obama. The headline above is not a prediction of what the Obama administration, backed by a solidly Democratic Congress, will accomplish. We've learned from decades of political observing not to place much value in the campaign promises of presidential candidates. They haven't help much when trying to predict what they will do once in the Oval Office.
No the little change comment is in regard to the political scene in Pasco and Pinellas counties. The discontent with the status quo that has been credited with helping an African American win the presidency for the first time didn't generate much throw-the-bums-out momentum here. By and large, the incumbents who ran for re-election in the two counties won. In Pasco, for instance, Commissioner Ann Hildebrand won her seventh - and final, she has said - term on the County Commission. In Pinellas, to cite another example, Pam Dubov easily won the county property appraiser's job even though she was the chief deputy to the retiring property appraiser, Jim Smith, who had been caught up in a public land sale controversy. Area state and national lawmakers, mostly Republicans, did well at the polls, too.
If former House Speaker Tip O'Neill was right when he declared all politics are local, then this year's Pasco and Pinellas county voters weren't clamoring for political change that would most directly affect them.
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