[Brilliant]

McBride's 5 pts behind Harris. I'll grant you that McBride has an uphill climb against Nelson, but he's got a much better chance than Harris. Harris has maxed out, and she's still more than 40 pts behind Nelson. The only way Harris could win this election is if Nelson dropped dead.

McBride has kind of a wild card because as many have noted, he's Hispanic. I suspect that he would cut into some of Nelson's Hispanic support, and that might make it a closer race than some think.

[Nick Danger]

McBride has kind of a wild card because as many have noted, he's Hispanic. I suspect that he would cut into some of Nelson's Hispanic support

You're overlooking a similar 'wild card' with Harris among women. It is among women that Nelson gets most of his support; men split almost 50-50 on Nelson as far as approve/disapprove is concerned.

Today, all of the candidates running in the GOP primary fare equally poorly against Nelson. So what? August polls showed Mondale tied with Reagan; they showed Dukakis beating Bush-41. The mainframe media seems to think that if they repeat this stuff enough times, it will come true. But it doesn't.

Sure, McBride will get some votes. So will Collins. But come next Wednesday, Katherine Harris will be the GOP nominee. At that point, I hope we will see the end of the Harris bashing except from Democrats.

[DustyMoment]

The only way Harris could win this election is if Nelson dropped dead.

Realistically, isn't that true, period?? Barring some cataclysmic event between now and November, IMO there is just about no one that the 'Pubbies can run to unseat Nelson. We're simply stuck with him. I think that KHarris still has a better shot than any of the others. The 'wild card' aspect of McBride is, IMO, simply that. Too often, the folks who come up with these associations (he's Hispanic, so that'll draw some of the Hispanic vote), are smoking something that isn't really legal in this country and their predictions often fail to come true.