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Florida is a cultural mosaic. The Panhandle seems to have more in common with neighbouring states, Alabama and Georgia that Fort Lauderdale and Miami in the southern part of the state. The house canyons off the coast of the world are far from the sugar cane plantations and inside orange.

But how the state is preparing for its main presidential elections Tuesday, there seems to be a problem to sew together the disparate parts: Real-Estate-crisis.

The Florida has felt the impact of problems of national mortgage and housing slowdown acute as in every state in the country. Rampant construction came to the stalemate, the house collapsed, turnover and job losses in the housing sector, related industries have officially broken out. At the same time, residents have seen an increase in land prices and taxes, after the devastating hurricanes in the years 2004 and 2005, an increase in insurance rates.

In interviews with about two dozen people in this fast-growing Central Florida City, almost all said that slumping property values and higher taxes and cost of insurance was the top of their concerns.

“After the cyclone was the whole sky was high - property taxes, insurance,” said Muhammad Yusaf, 53, a native of Guyana, withdrew his family in Saint-Cloud the Bronx, NY, in 1995 and now owns a small bands Mall here and a motel in Kissimmee. Yusaf said the tax and insurance in his hotel were approximately $ 24000 a year, more than twice as high as prices in 2004.

Candidates of both parties have talked more and more on the need for the economic incentive to avoid a recession, and some of them proposed plans for reducing the plethora of foreclosures.

The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, committed, the future of its results of the campaign in Florida, tried to differentiate itself from other Republican candidates by promoting his support for a national catastrophe fund would contribute to this that the lower costs of the hurricane - Insurance.

Apart from the fact that the Fund, but there was no indication of Florida during the real estate crisis of the two-hour Republican debate Thursday in Boca Raton.

(Christian Democrats are also the vote Tuesday, but the main candidates for the Party of the appointment had not fought in Florida. And the National Party gestrippt the status of the Assembly of Delegates, as punishment to maintain its main ago on February 5)

For many Floridians, real estate, vault, the duration vis-à-vis other crops such as public security, immigration and public health. Last year, in response to the growing anger on the costs of owning a home, the Florida legislative approval of a tax reduction plan as a basis of a proposal to amend the Constitution. The amendment appears on the ballot Tuesday.

The measure, declaration of love to you, Charlie Crist, a Republican, simply, taxation, although the reductions for most homeowners. Florida does not have an income tax, and local governments have been lobbying against the amendment, they say that devastate their homes.

Florida’s property, taking into account the problems sharpness emphasis here in St. Cloud and along the Interstate 4 corridor that runs from Tampa on the Gulf Coast on this page in the centre of Orlando, Daytona Beach on the Atlantic coast.

The region has traditionally been a strong concentration of undecided voters, so as Florida in the key swing region for the elections. In fact, most voters interviewed at Saint-Cloud said they were candidates, taking into account the two parties.

“I am a registered Republican,” said Richard McConahay, 63, former owner of a feed stored here. “But when it comes to the final minutes in the cabin, which plays no role.”

McConahay said he tends to Senator John McCain, R-Ariz. “I think it is quite frankly, quite honestly,” he said.

Regarding the main contenders for the Democratic nomination, Sens Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York and Illinois Barack Obama, “I am simply not possible for a good feeling Hillary,” said McConahay. “Je ne sais not Obama. ”

Yusaf, motel owners, said he was a registered Democrat and the proposed vote by party, but he tried to choose between Clinton and Obama. Although the crisis of real estate was the beginning of its concerns, it was the evaluation of candidates on other issues, including health care.