Skirting the edge of District 12 is Polk City, Florida, home of the Fantasy of Flight attraction, where Sarah Palin stumped with Governor Charlie Christ and Congressman Adam Putnam this afternoon. Although, I think "Fantasy of Fight" would be a more appropriate title for the event, as in it's a fantasy that they can win this fight.

POLK CITY, Florida (CNN) -- At a boisterous Sarah Palin rally in Polk City, Florida on Saturday afternoon, one name was surprisingly absent from the campaign décor -- John McCain's.

McCain's name nowhere to be seen at Palin rally

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Adam Putnam, the third ranking Republican in Congress, has a battle on his hands in District 12 with a strong campaign being waged against him by Doug Tudor, a retired Navy Master Chief.

Despite the fact that the local newspaper endorsed Putnam today, citizens are angry at Adam Putnam for his voting record and this R+5 race isn't as close as some might think, considering that there are 20,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in the District, and Barack Obama is bringing out the Democratic vote this year.

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If you don't live here in Central Florida, you might be wondering, "why should I support to a campaign that is not in my district?" The answer is simple. As a member of the Republican leadership in the House, Adam "Howdy Doody" Putnam will be the obstructionist in chief to anything President Obama is trying to accomplish. Putnam's role in the House doesn't just impact FL-12, it impacts all working families throughout the nation. The result of the FL-12 race has an effect on all of us! We need your help to get Doug Tudor elected to Congress in Florida's 12th District!

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You won't see it reported on CNN or MSNBC, but Adam Putnam, the third ranking Republican in Congress, has a real fight on his hands! While the Tampa Tribune and Orlando Sentinel editorial boards have endorsed Putnam, vocal constituents in Florida's 12th District think otherwise.

Doug Tudor is fighting an uphill battle raising funds, but he's winning support with his grassroots efforts to kick Adam Putnam out of Congress. Adam Putnam may be dreaming about moving up the Republican leadership ranks, but his constituents think he needs to move out of Congress, altogether.

Yes we can change FL-12 from Red to Blue! Doug Tudor can win this! If we can raise $5,000, we can help the Doug Tudor Campaign purchase Nine Days of Twenty 30-Second TV Ads Per Day in his FL-12 race against Adam Putnam!

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I admit it. I wasn't paying attention. I was never politically active. I was one of those low-information voters. My method was simple. I handed the sample ballot to my husband, who was more politically aware, and he would mark it for me. Not this time. In fact, I'm more informed than he is these days and often he'll say, "Did you hear about ..." and I am able to tell him more than he already knows. It's my turn to mark his sample ballot.

The first time I paid attention to anything Adam Putnam had to say was after the 2006 election when he went on a Republican political crusade to demonize House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for "requesting" a military jet to fly back and forth to her district in California. Up until that point, I didn't think much one way or another about my representative in Congress.

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