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Many of the journalists covering this year's presidential campaign are deeply embedded, spending months following the candidates as they crisscross the country, hanging on every debate nuance or poll number fluctuation.
But for the reporting team of Robert Wallis and Jennifer Wallace, it was their view from a distance and their experience witnessing elections in other countries that made them seek out the voters of Florida. They wanted to learn more about what they perceive to be an increasingly polarized landscape of political opinion playing out on the airwaves and in the voting booth in America.
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"I like Obama as a person but I don't like his politics," says 77-year-old Carrie Johnson of St. Augustine. "I'm a Republican. I was raised in a household that believed in paying your own way."
Photojournalist Wallis wrote in an email to NBCNews.com:
The idea for this project came from work I did in Russia in the mid 1990s. I covered the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90s, as a photographer working for Time Magazine. In 1996 Russia held its first ever presidential election. Instead of following the candidates as part of the media pack I decided to step off the campaign bus and talk to ordinary Russians about the momentous changes their country was facing. There was an extreme polarization of opinion in Russia at that time involving the choice of whether to try and hold on to vestiges of their old system or to fully embrace free-market capitalism.
As an ex-pat American living abroad for more than 25 years I have watched the growing polarization in American politics from afar, particularly after the election of President Obama to his first term in office. I decided to come to Florida to take a "vox-pop" approach to a presidential campaign once again. Florida is a key swing state and was at the forefront of one of the most controversial elections in American history in 2000. I was born and raised in Florida so the project was also a return to my roots.
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"I voted for Obama last time, partly because he stood for a new racial tolerance, and I will stay with the devil I know than one we don't know," says Armando Rivas Senior, seen here with his son, Armando Jr."
The reporting duo describe their process:
We found our subjects by chance, at football tailgate parties, at restaurant counters, in beach parking lots, after church services and outside gun shows, among other places.
After speaking to dozens of voters, writer Wallace reflected:
As a British journalist, I was struck by the repeated mention of God in people's comments. Religion does not feature in British politics, but in America it is an issue, influencing the debate and palpable at campaign rallies where pastors will offer a prayer before speakers come to the platform. I was also interested in hearing the heated opinions about healthcare, coming as I do from the country which created the National Health Service, the world's largest publicly funded healthcare system, in 1948. In Britain, the NHS is often referred to as the "third rail", so dear to the nation's heart that, despite its cost, no party can conceive of abolishing it.
In the end, the reporting team found that voters shared divergent opinions, but could agree on one thing -- they want the truth:
A repeated observation we encountered is that the media is so politicized that it's hard to get a sense of the objective truth any longer. While people on the right accuse the mainstream media of having a liberal bias, those on the left often characterize it as being controlled by corporate interests. Nevertheless people were generally friendly and eager to speak with us if they felt their own point of view was being honestly reported. We did not challenge statements that were made to us in order to encourage people to voice their opinions freely.
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In the key battleground state of Florida, divergent opinions separate voters with just over two weeks until the election.
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Johnny Noble votes in the auditorium at the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse Annex in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sept. 18, 2012. Alabama voters decided by a 2-to-1 margin to avoid dramatic cuts in state government by withdrawing $437 million from a state trust fund to help balance the General Fund budget for the next three years.
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A Libyan woman votes at a polling station in the old city of Tripoli, July 7.
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Women wave to a helicopter during the National Assembly election at a polling station in Tripoli July 7. Libyans queued to vote in their first free national election in 60 years on Saturday, to choose a 200-member assembly.
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Libyan men hold their elections ID cards celebrating election day in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, July 7. Jubilant Libyan voters marked a major step toward democracy after decades of erratic one-man rule, casting their ballots Saturday in the first parliamentary election after last year's overthrow and killing of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. But the joy was tempered by boycott calls, the burning of ballots and other violence in the country's restive east.
By msnbc.com news services:Libyans began voting in their first free national election in 60 years on Saturday, a poll designed to shake off the legacy of Moammar Gadhafi but which risks being hijacked by autonomy demands in the east and unrest in the desert south.
Voters will choose a 200-member assembly which will elect a prime minister and cabinet before laying the ground for full parliamentary elections next year under a new constitution. Full story.
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A Libyan protester demanding greater representation throws torn ballots in the air outside a polling station in the eastern city of Benghazi on July 7. Hundreds of protesters burned ballots to demand greater representation although most residents of the Mediterranean city of Benghazi voted in historic elections vowing to build a new Libya.
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Residents vote shortly after the polls opened in the Wisconsin recall election at the Beloit Historical Society on June 5, in Beloit, Wisconsin. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a Democrat, is trying to unseat Republican Governor Scott Walker in the recall election. Opponents of Walker forced a recall election after the governor pushed to change the collective bargaining process for public employees in the state.
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People wait in line for voting to open on June 5, in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is taking on Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a recall election.
AP reports -- After a brief but bruising campaign that followed a more than yearlong fight over union rights and the state's cash-strapped budget, voters in a narrowly divided Wisconsin began casting ballots Tuesday on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
The first-term Republican was back on the ballot just 17 months after his election. Enraged Democrats and labor activists gathered more than 900,000 signatures in support of the recall after they failed to stop Walker and his GOP allies in the state legislature from stripping most public employees of their union right to collectively bargain. Continue reading.
For more information: Wisconsin recall vote continues the age of polarization.
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Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker votes on June 5, in Wauwatosa, Wis. Walker faces Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a special recall election.
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Gubernatorial candidate and Milwaukee's Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett lines up to vote at the French Immersion School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 5. Wisconsin voters will decide on Tuesday whether to throw Governor Scott Walker out of office in a rare recall election forced by opponents of the Republican's controversial effort to curb collective bargaining for most unionized government workers.
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Voters cast their ballots on June 5, in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is taking on Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a recall election.
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Voters cast their ballots in the Alabama primary at the Vaughn Park Church of Christ precinct in Montgomery on March 13, 2012.
A woman feeds her completed ballot into an electronic reader at the Vaughn Park Church of Christ precinct on Tuesday.
The JacksonChannel.com reports: Tuesday's Deep South primaries could answer questions for all three Republican presidential candidates.
Polls are open in Mississippi and Alabama as Mitt Romney tries to make a southern breakthrough. At the same time, Newt Gingrich is seen as needing wins to stay in the race while Rick Santorum looks for a knock-out blow against Gingrich. Santorum wants to go one-on-one with Romney.
Related story: First Thoughts – Why Romney could lose (and also win)
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New Hampshire residents vote in the Republican presidential primary just before dawn in the basement of the Immaculate Conception Church in Penacook, N.H., Jan.10, 2012.
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A New Hampshire resident casts her vote in the Republican presidential primary at the 150-year-old Town Hall in Bristol, N.H., Jan. 10 2012.
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Tea party supporter William Temple, of Brunswick, Ga., sits in the Des Moines Airport heading home after the Iowa caucus, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012.
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Globe Manufacturing Company employees Shirley Smith, left, and Pat Dexter listen as Republican presidential candidate and former Utah Governor, Jon Huntsman Jr., speaks on Jan. 04, 2012 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. Huntsman continues to campaign hard in the nation's first primary state. Globe makes equipment for firefighters and other emergency workers.
With the Iowa caucus over, the candidates and their supporters head to New Hampshire for the next contest which will take place Jan. 10. Jon Huntsman skipped Iowa and concentrated on New Hampshire and Michele Bachmann dropped out of the race after a poor showing in Iowa. More news from NBC politics.
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Tunisians shout slogans during a demonstration aganist what they call 'an election fraud' in front of the press center in Tunis, October 25, 2011.
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A demonstrator holds a banner during a protest against the Islamist Ennahda movement in Tunis October 25, 2011. Tunisia's moderate Islamist party was preparing to lead a coalition government Tuesday after its election win sent a message to the region that once-banned Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring." With election officials still counting ballots from Sunday's vote -- the first since the uprisings which began in Tunisia and spread through the region -- the Ennahda party said its own tally showed it won and several of its biggest rivals conceded defeat.
Full story on the election results in Tunisia.
Reuters analysis: Democracy can work for Arab Islamists
Voters queued for hours in pouring rain Tuesday morning as they waited to vote in Liberia's presidential election, expected to serve as a referendum on the performance of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first democratically elected female head of state.
Sirleaf, a newly-awarded Nobel laureate faces stiff competition from opposition party ticket Winston Tubman and George Weah.
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Voters wait in the rain for the start of voting, outside a polling station in Monrovia, Liberia on Oct. 11.
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Voters wait in line for the start of voting, in a rare moment of clear skies, outside a polling station in Monrovia, Liberia Tuesday, Oct. 11.
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Voters put corn kernels into jars with their favorite Republican presidential candidates on the first day of the Iowa State Fair August 11 in Des Moines, Iowa. The candidates, including Mitt Romney, John Huntsman and Newt Gingrich, visited the fair ahead of Saturday's Iowa Straw Poll to greet voters and engage in traditional Iowa campaigning rituals.
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