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Posted on 10/26/2010 12:50:04 PM PDT by chad_in_georgia
Did Rep. Kendrick Meek and Gov. Charlie Crist plot Monday to join forces?
No, says Team Meek. “Let me check into it,” says Team Crist.
In other words, there’s still no straight answer to the question haunting Florida’s Senate election: What would happen if either Meek or Crist dropped out of the race and endorsed his fellow? Republican candidate Marco Rubio leads both men in the polls. Were their powers combined, Rubio might find himself in a dead heat with Kendrick Crist, or Charlie Meek.
While reports of a meeting between the two men are fresh, the rumors that Meek would drop out in order to clear the way for a left-leaning Crist began two weeks ago, says a Meek campaign staffer.
“We said this when these rumors began a week ago, two weeks ago, and obviously Kendrick has said it in his own words: He’s running with two feet forward. “
The Daily Caller contacted representatives for both campaigns after a tipster claimed that Meek and Crist disappeared for a private talk at Monday’s AIPAC event in Hollywood, Fla. Neither campaign confirmed the private meeting, but a Meek rebuffed the rumors that have been floating through Florida’s political circles.
“We know the Crist campaign has pushed the rumor that [Meek] is dropping out. Those rumors were bought and paid for by Charlie Crist U.S. Senate,” the staffer said.
“Today on the radio [Meek] gave a very strong, impassioned speech about why he’s going to be the next senator from Florida. His debate performances have always been of a passionate engaged candidate who’s running to win. From our standpoint, since this began, has anything changed in this campaign?”
When called for comment Crist spokesman Danny Kanner told TheDC, “Candidates get together and say things. Let me check into it.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/26/meek-to-clear-the-way-for-the-crist-rumors-fly-that-dem-will-endorse-rival-in-florida/#ixzz13UmeiPL9
Meek isn’t dropping out - he owes nothing to Crist.Crist is far too egocentric to drop out. I’m watching the clock
We’ve been hearing this for months and nothing has happened.
With a week to go, it’s way too late to have any effect either way.
I think Crist is toast, and the Baraqqis will have to find another “independent” POTUS candidate for 2012 to covertly fund.
Yep, this past election has taught me to NEVER vote for a RINO, even if he/she is running against a Democrat. At least if the Democrat wins, then that particular RINO will be gone forever. Then we can try again in the next primary season. If McCain had been elected, we would be in disarray (as we were in the last quarter of the Bush years) and there would be true civil war within the party instead of just a good house cleaning.
Anything is possible, after all this is Floriduh.
And there are a whole bussel full of very ignorant and stupid voters here.
their names are already on the ballot and the voting has already started, nothing will save that RINO now.
I know this rumor’s been flying around for a couple, three weeks- it’s a ploy by Crist. As a Floridian I hold him responsible for turning the momentum McCain’s way in the primary season down here for 2008- I will never forget, nor forgive him.
He’s been a lousy governor and never had an original idea of his own. I despise him, can you tell? :)
I agree, too late to matter enough.
Still, I would not be at ALL surprised to see either Meek or Crist drop out, endorse the other ... and then *coincidentally* be appointed ambassador or given some other sinecure before 2012 ends.
No reason to believe that republicans supporting Crist would switch to vote for Meeks. The democrats probably would go back to Meeks, but if it is clear Crist isn’t going to win anyway, I expect the democrats WILL vote for Meeks just because he’s their democrat and they won’t want to look like racists.
And I can’t imagine the 20% still supporting Meeks to jump to Crist, who they see as the spoiler keeping them from winning with their chosen candidate. At least not the blacks — and Crist would need the entire 20%, and then some, to be sure of beating Rubio.
Plus, this close to election? They’ve already had early voting so people are already splitting the vote, and they can’t change machines, and it would be hard for them to get paperwork out to tell their supporters to vote for the other candidate at this point.
Frankly, if I was a Rubio supporter, I’d be pushing this story for all it’s worth, since it will tend to depress voters who might think their chosen candidate is going to drop out.
A lot of the Meeks vote would just sit it out...There is not much evidence a candidate can transfer his vote to another!!
Yea!One never knows which way the dead vote is going to fall!!
Yes, they would sit it out. Which is precisely why they can't have Kendrick Meek drop out. If his group of democrats stays home, Alex Sink, the democrat gubernatorial candidate who is in a much closer race, would be doomed.
Hasn’t early voting already started in FL? If so, many votes have already been cast for both Crist and Meek.
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