Sorry that I lumped you with the well named hit man who is flying a NV flag even though he gives the impression of being in NY.
Yes KH has a tough fight but she now officially has the FL GOP (including JEB who is very popular) behind her......that counts alot.
She's been considered the 'underdog' in every campaign she's ever run.....the FL Legislature, FL Sec. of State & the US Congress & she has come through.
Martinez did it against all odds & she can as well.
Hopefully the Florida Marriage referendum will be on the ballot in Nov. and that will help to bring out the GOP conservative vote.
I think Harris could outraise Nelson by 2 to 1, 3 to 1, or even 5 to 1 and still not be able to get more than 45% of the vote. It remains the candidate who is the problem, and unless Nelson's negatives can be driven up to the level of Osama bin Laden's, she won't be able to win.
She wasn't an underdog in the Congressional contest, and ended up performing far below her GOP predecessor, Dan Miller, getting only the barest minimum base GOP vote despite drastically outspending her Clintonista 'Rat opponent. The problem for her is that she has not run a statewide contest in 8 years. What worked for her (pre-2000) was that she was unknown, and that is no longer the case. Given that she never had the opportunity to effectively gauge support because she couldn't run for a 2nd term as Sec of State in '02, there was no way to tell how well she would've done AFTER being a very known quantity (again, only using the Congressional race as a gauge, it was very poor). Her polling against Nelson, who remains very low-key (and has worked well for him (like a pre-2000 Harris)), has been absolutely abysmal. It's not the polling data that is flawed, because the same polls by the same company show Nelson losing to Jeb by at least 10%. Harris has failed to turn around perceptions and she just needs to cut her losses and run for her House seat again... there are far worse consolation prizes than that.
A lot of Americans who defend marriage also vote for liberal candidates.