By Jason Szep CLEARWATER, Florida (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Florida's voters on Monday to expect "rough" campaigning as she seeks to halt a slide in opinion polls in a state that could make or break Sen. John McCain's White House bid. Strategists say the Alaska governor must rally Republican loyalists into a get-out-the-vote offensive in a two-day swing over more than 800 miles in the state that George W. Bush won in 2000 and 2004 but where Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has taken the lead. "There is a feeling now that we are beginning to see among Republicans that McCain can't win," said David Johnson, a strategist and former executive director of the Florida Republican party. "A lot of the base is dissatisfied with Sen. McCain," he said of party activists who helped...
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