South Florida looking good for Obama and three Democratic House candidates including Annette Taddeo

Markos wrote a post yesterday about the latest polling from South Florida -- and it looks good. Obama is up in that key area by a wide margin: 46 - 30.

Importantly, as Markos notes, there are three House seats in play in South Florida, too:

"Perhaps that's why Bush came down to help raise money for Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart. The brothers are under pressure from Democrats Raul Martinez and O2B candidate Joe Garcia. A third seat, that held by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, is being challenged by another great Democrat, Annette Taddeo."

We've set up an ActBlue page for one of them: Annette Taddeo. You can also give by clicking on the blue box above (all your money goes to the candidate, and it's totally safe). She's a great progressive candidate for the 18th Congressional District and understands the demographics of South Florida. Annette is a successful businesswoman, a Latina and is Jewish. South Florida is no longer dominated by the old guard Cuban-Americans. Simon Rosenberg reported on the changing dynamics in Florida:

Florida's Hispanic community is changing. Waves of new Puerto Rican, Mexican, Central and South American immigrants have made the historically powerful Cuban-American community a minority of the statewide Hispanic vote. And the Cuban-American community itself is changing, with many more post-1980 immigrants and 2nd generation American-born Cuban-Americans entering the electorate.

Annette is running against Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who has been in office for eighteen years. Ros-Lehtinen spends most of her time obsessing about all things Cuba while simultaneously serving as a Bush rubber stamp (which Ileana recently denied, literally saying she wasn't a "rubber stamp.") But, this is a vibrant, diverse and Democratic district stretching from South Beach down to Key West. This race also just made it onto the DCCC's list of emerging races where "Democratic candidates have generated excitement in their districts for their campaigns for change." We think Annette's going to emerge into a Democratic pick up.

The better Taddeo does, the better Obama does -- and vice versa. Help Annette Taddeo turn South Florida blue.