[zerelda]

This is so sad. First she is having a little difficulty in the campaign (mostly Republicans fault). She has made a few missteps I admit. However, now her vision has gone back to having to fight for the nomination. She already is low on money or she would never have used her personal funds (if she did - not sure about that - story too confusing), but now she has to fight these lightweight guys who are just an annoyance (flame away on that statement). Now keep in mind, the primary is in October!!!! That means whoever wins has ONE MONTH to go after Nelson.....This is so depressing and sad!!!!!

First of all, the primary is on September 5, 2006, not in October.

I don't personally know much about any of the three other republican candidates for the nomination, so I don't know if they are "lightweights" or not. Perhaps you know quite a bit about all of them, so you can make that statement?

I'm looking forward to the opportunity to learn much more about McBride, Collins, and Monroe in the next few months, and making the appropriate comparisons and evaluations between them, as well as Harris. Ultimately, of course--and I hope this is true for all of us--one of those candidates will be the candidate whom I feel best represents the interests of the people of Florida and the nation, and that will be the candidate for whom I'll cast a vote. Obviously, that's an individual process, and the outcome may vary among individuals...that's what the open democratic election process in the USA is all about, after all, and thank God. You apparently feel differently about that, and that's your right...no flames from this direction. We just disagree.

Finally, according to her FEC reports, Katherine Harris has--thusfar--put $3,250,000 of her own money into her campaign. FYI.

[napscoordinator]

Thank you for the update especially on the date. 5 September is much better specifically because August is a "dead month" in politics. The three guys are not lightweights in the sense of being weak. I just meant unknown more than Katherine. Your whole date change makes me a bit more hopeful. I still think that Katherine could have really fought back over the summer against Nelson and now will not be able to. I guess it will come down to if it was meant to be. I just thought at least at the beginning that it would have been another "fairly easy" Republican pick-up.