Posted on 03/28/2010 5:20:39 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Crist most admired senators - McCain & Goober,
Crist persists in his personal attacks.
Crist is a finger-in-the-wind starry-eyed populist who wants everybody to like him. One of his first events as Governor was to host Gov. Ahnold and Robert Kennedy Jr. to promote global warming alarm.
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Crist is back on the smearing: slush fund, misappropriation of funds, etc.
[Sort of reminds me of the recent Ryan v Obama conflab. Rubio turns the discussion, again, to the issues.]
Rubio slamming him
Crist is coming across as a vile mean man. Rubio just nailed him again on the personal attacks. Rubio looks like a winner and is acting like a winner.
preexisting = discrimination?
He has nothing else!
Except, let's not quibble! What a maroon!
Crist lost me before his election when he dissed W for McCain. I couldn’t vote for him.
Yeah, Crist fell for that lets be like dems and we will when crap.
Florida poll: Obama, Democrats to pay political price for healthcare reform
BY MARC CAPUTO
mcaputo@miamiherald.com
TALLAHASSEE — Florida voters dislike the new health reform law so much that President Obama and the state’s top Democrat, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, are paying a hefty political price, according to a new survey and analysis by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research.
Only 34 percent of Florida voters support the new law while 54 percent are opposed — well outside of the 4 percent error-margin for the poll of 625 registered voters.
Opposition is even stronger among two crucial voting blocs in Florida: voters older than 65 and voters with no party affiliation. Seniors disfavor the bill by a 65-25 percent margin, while independent voters oppose the law 62-34.
The poll also shows that, by a 15 percentage-point margin, more Floridians have a more negative than positive view of Obama. And they oppose his so-called cap-and-trade global warming legislation as well as the new healthcare law.
The ``eye-popping’’ numbers in the poll were mainly dealing with health care, seniors and Sen. Nelson, Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker said. He said elder voters were once a reliable base of support for Sen. Nelson, but no more.
``The only saving grace for Bill Nelson is that his election is in 2012 and some of the anger might die down by then,’’ Coker said. ``But he probably can’t escape the damage completely.’’
The percentage of voters who have an unfavorable opinion of Nelson — 34 percent — is almost even with those with a favorable view of him. Since his 2006 re-election, Nelson’s popularity has nose-dived 18 percentage points, the poll shows.
Because Florida is such a crucial swing state with so many seniors, Nelson’s troubles are a shot across the bow for Democrats everywhere, Coker said. The poll shows Nelson would lose to Republicans in theoretical match-ups against former Gov. Jeb Bush, Gov. Charlie Crist and his current U.S. Senate opponent Marco Rubio.
``If Bill Nelson’s getting hurt by this, you can imagine what damage there is to other Democrats across the country,’’ Coker said.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/27/1550579/florida-poll-obama-democrats-to.html#ixzz0jTdHIAq1
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Wallace asks Rubio if he would move away from employer-based insurance.
Next up immigration. This will be another major issue in FL. From what I have read, Rubio is good on the issue. Look for Crist to pander and obfuscate.
Next up immigration. This will be another major issue in FL. From what I have read, Rubio is good on the issue. Look for Crist to pander and obfuscate.
I understand completely.
Um, Chuckie, they did let you vote on Becker.
They voted him down.
Same to you Bah and everyone.
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Crist wants to close the border.
[What about Florida? IIRC, it does NOT actually have a border with a foreign country [i.e., Mexico]. What did Crist, as governor, do to reduce illegals entering Florida?]
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