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Going Inside Both Presidential Campaigns in Florida

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By Adriana Ruiz

Orlando Weekly | October 23, 2008

I spent a week volunteering for both campaigns to get a perspective most reporters must speculate about from the outside. And because I wanted unvarnished access, not a public relations tour, I engaged in the ethically murky but necessary practice of concealing my role as a reporter.

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Tags: Florida, 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, John McCain, battleground states, undercover reporting, grassroots campaigns

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