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.
I hope you're right, but I don't see her pulling it off against Nelson. The reason her opponents fare poorly against Nelson is that no one has heard of them. Hopefully, that would end if they got the nomination.
But that's not Harris' problem. She's well known to all, and still comes up more than 40 points short of Nelson.
Frankly, I'm beginning to think that the most likely way we're going to have a GOP Senator in that spot is if Nelson switches parties. Actually, now that I think of it, if Nelson were to retire or be nominated for national office, we'd get a GOP Senator right away.
Exactly.....I've had women point to my Harris sticker and say that Florida really needs a woman senator to represent 'our POV".
Others have told me that they are 'angered' by the relentless attacks on Harris in the newspapers.
FL is home to some of the world's biggest and most influential Christian organizations, which will certainly be making sure their constituents know the facts about the candidates to GOTV for Harris. FR is not the only influence online or off by any means.
Cooties notwithstanding. ;^)