Posted on 09/04/2006 7:26:12 PM PDT by davidosborne
It is FLORIDA PRIMARY TIME ! - Come here to discuss who you voted for and why... and lets follow the results as they come in..
Click here to view live election results !!
Well there is party registration voting only, no independents allowed, so I don't think so.
Congradulations Katherine! She is a great lady and I hope she can somehow get her campaign on track.
I take it that the results in the 13th are a good thing?
Yep around 50,000 turnout for the GOP primary and 30,000 for the Dems. Buchanan should win in Nov.
I would not use the word "afraid", and did not use this word myself. Franks, being the man he is with the experience he has, simply sized up the field of battle as is his wont and found chances of a successful engagement lacking. So you hold in place to fight perhaps another day.
Plus he is doing other things, so Harris and her deserved reputation for victory certainly wasn't the only factor involved in his decision.
Isn't she a former cheerleader or something? Not ditzy?
I will be happy either way....Except I have to live with my wife who is from Michigan and so is Vern...LOL
Long time ago! Besides, a lot of cheerleaders I knew back in the day outsmarted me on a regular basis.
I thought this was a Rep district. Did Harris have a difficult time winning in 2004?
"What kind of logic is that? She is entitled to run for office just like anyone else."
The logic is that THAT is the reality. There is only one Republican Senate candidate nationwide polling worse in the general election than KH... and that's Alan Schlesinger in CT. The fact that she KNOWS how poorly she is doing and yet steadfastly remains in a race she cannot win, yet the contest with any other viable Republican would make it competitive, is beyond selfish, not to mention destructive. If we had other candidates nationwide acting exactly as she has, we'd easily lose our majority.
The Bradenton Hearald has called the race for Katherine Harris
U.S. Senate - GOP Primary
Florida 3467 of 6773 Precincts Reporting - 51.19%
Name Party Votes Pct
Harris , Katherine GOP 327,131 49.74
McBride , Will GOP 199,349 30.31
Collins , LeRoy GOP 96,987 14.75
Monroe , Peter GOP 34,277
They have a red check mark besides her name but it did not copy....
OK, I have to get it off my chest.
Insdide the beltway, she's Katherine Harris, beautiful, mild-mannered Republican Congresswoman. But on the campaign trail, she transforms into BLUNDER WOMAN!!
OK, now that I've gotten that out of my system, I believe that the only reasonable thing to do is hope for the best. And if Katherine Harris does somehow win, then in November, I will post a major crow-eating thread on FR in my own words.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Republican Senate hopeful Rep. Katherine Harris and her husband, Anders Ebbeson, talk with reporters after voting in the primary elections today in Longboat Key.
September 05. 2006 8:21PM
Harris jumps out to early lead
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA - - Katherine Harris, trying to overcome months of campaign troubles and fight off three relatively unknown challengers, jumped out to an early lead Tuesday in the race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.
With 6 percent of the state's precincts reporting, Harris had 45 percent of the votes cast, compared with 35 percent for Windermere lawyer Will McBride, 14 percent for retired Navy admiral LeRoy Collins and 5 percent for Pinellas County developer Peter Monroe.
In a poll last week, the 49-year-old Longboat Key congresswoman held a double-digit lead on her three challengers, who were hoping to marshal enough of the anti-Harris vote in the GOP to upset her. Harris has a strong base of Republicans who still love her because of her role in the 2000 presidential election.
On the campaign trial, Harris treated the Republican primary like a minor bump in the road on her way to running against Bill Nelson in November, when she is expected to face a more formidable challenge.
Polls have shown that she will have trouble beating the Democratic incumbent senator, whom she attacks as a liberal who tries to raise taxes, coddles illegal immigrants and undermines President Bush's policies. She's promising to work to shore up the nation's troubled immigration policy, cut taxes and preserve "traditional marriages."
Harris, accompanied by husband Anders Ebbeson, showed up at Longboat Key town hall to vote at about 9:30 a.m., after starting the day waving campaign signs with supporters on a Sarasota street corner.
"I'm feeling great," she said before going inside to cast her ballot. She said she thinks the adversity she's faced this campaign season has unified her base of supporters.
"I think everything has worked together for good," she said. "I think after this (election), you'll see a great strength and unity as (the Republican Party) committed to do, and we'll move forward. ... We're just focused on Nov. 7."
A former Florida state senator and elected secretary of state, Harris became a rising star in the Republican Party after her role in certifying the state's votes in the disputed 2000 presidential election for President Bush, parlaying the name recognition into two terms in the U.S. House.
I want goad you to much...LOL
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