TAMPA, Fla. — Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had a pointed message Sunday for Barack Obama: This thing isn’t over yet.
Palin said the Democratic presidential nominee was acting as if he’s won the election and had written his inaugural address.
“Barack Obama and I both have spent quite some time on the basketball court,” Palin told a raucous crowd of more than 5,000 at the convention center, referring to the fact that both played the sport in high school. “But where I come from, you have to win the game before you start cutting down the net.”
Nine days before the election, Palin was making another push to sway voters in the battleground state of Florida, where polls show Republican nominee John McCain trails Obama for the state’s 27 electoral votes.
The Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, where Palin was concentrating her efforts Sunday, is where most of the state’s undecided voters live.
“You kinda get the feeling that the Obama campaign thinks this whole election process is just a formality,” she said. “They’ve overlooked, though, the minor detail of earning your confidence and your trust and winning your vote. And judging from the media coverage, it does seem the coronation is already set.”
Obama’s campaign said the claim that he has written an inaugural address is “completely false.”
