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..
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The exact opposite could be said about Gallagher/Crist.
Name another GOP candidate, other then the CT Republican, that the GOP Establishment has so throughly tried to sabotage? Actually, they've spent more time trying to ruin her then the CT Republican. He was just put up as a token in a state they figure would go Leiberman early on.
Whatever mistakes she may have made, you have to admit having the party undermining you has to count for some of that abysmal polling data.
If we REALLY want another Republican Senator from Florida (guess Martinez is Republican too), maybe we need to do more than just 'hope for the best'. Maybe we need to get out and work our hearts out. Imagine how it would help the country if we could get a second Republican from Fla in the U.S. Senate!
Harris won the district in 2004 by 10% against a nothing. Bush beat Kerry there by 12%. The district has a definite GOP lean, but it is also moderate, and filled with old folks, mostly Yankees, generally from the Midwest, mostly WASP, coming in out of the cold, with an income from their investments that supplements social security. They are not as comfortable though as the Yankee retirees in Naples, which is outside the district, that tend to have the real money.
I'd rather have Harris.
Florida Department of State
Division of Elections
2006 Primary
Republican Primary
UNOFFICIAL ELECTION NIGHT RETURNS
(may not include absentee or provisional ballots)
Page Generated: 9/5/2006 10:11 PM
GOVERNOR
(Lieutenant Governor not yet designated)
| Charlie Crist (REP) |
Tom Gallagher (REP) |
Vernon Palmer (REP) |
Michael St. Jean (REP) |
|
| Total | 378,702 | 189,909 | 8,152 | 7,033 |
| % Votes | 64.9% | 32.5% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Milt Bauguess (REP) |
Randy Johnson (REP) |
Tom Lee (REP) |
|
| Total | 33,760 | 192,097 | 301,081 |
| % Votes | 6.4% | 36.5% | 57.1% |
Florida Department of State
Division of Elections
2006 Primary
Republican Primary
UNOFFICIAL ELECTION NIGHT RETURNS
(may not include absentee or provisional ballots)
Page Generated: 9/5/2006 10:11 PM
| LeRoy Collins Jr. (REP) |
Katherine Harris (REP) |
William McBride (REP) |
Peter Monroe (REP) |
|
| Total | 88,901 | 279,855 | 168,120 | 30,508 |
| % Votes | 15.7% | 49.3% | 29.6% | 5.4% |
Let's not get into this now. She is the nominee for better or WORSE, so we might as well get used to it and save the recrininations for election night.
Yep. Nose-holdin' time again.
What's a shame is that Martinez got 100% from the ACU. He's just wrong on that one issue.
Fewer Dems (about 31,000 +) than GOP (about 51,000 +) participated in the 13th Congressional primary!
Hope that is also true of the November election so the GOP can hold this seat.
"I'd rather have Harris.'
I'll do what I can. What's your beef with Foley? He took the dopey stance on Dubai, IMHO.
If there's a "viable candidate" who had a chance to win the primary as well as general election, why didn't s/he come out? Unless, of course, the "viable candidate" was afraid of Harris, or wanted to be anointed, not elected by voters in the primary.
if we give up, we have no chance. I would much prefer to have Katherine Harris represent vs Bill Nelson.
Sorry, but your logic escapes me. She is doing so poorly that she is clobbering her Rep opponents in the primary.
She was elected twice to Congress by significant margins. She should pull out of the race to allow someone else to win the primary? If there is a stronger candidate, he/she should have run in the primary. The polls months before an election aren't necessarily the final word. I guess we should encourage Reps to pull out of the Presidential campaign in 2008 except for McCain and Rudy. Only they can beat Hillary.
This is all sour grapes stuff. It is debatable whether any Rep can beat the incumbent, Nelson, but the real poll is the ballot box. Harris deserves Rep support and the predominately Rep state government should get behind her.
I am interested in political philosophy, not in being a bookie.
I would like for that to happen, but I just don't see how. She's dug herself into a hole the size of the Grand Canyon.
But, there's no point in going into that now, so it's time to work for a good election night.
BRAVO BUMP......my thoughts as well!
I have heard the complaints about her being sabotaged by the establishment, but they really don't ring true. She did more to harm herself over the past year than all the media attacks and so-called establishment undermining could ever hope to accomplish. I truly have yet to see a more inept Senate candidacy in the past 25 years out of either party. If she gave a damn at all about winning this seat, she'd have stepped aside. This is nothing but an exercise in enormous ego and selfishness.
She also won by 10% in 2002.
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