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Man, are you wrong. She has zero chance of beating Nelson. The Republican party told her she had no chance. She is a bull-headed spoiled brat. Believe me, it is a family trait. I will vote for her, but her career deserves to be OVER after this race. She can go stand next to Dan Quayle. She is a net negative for the party.

Something you say doesn't compute. Harris has never lost an election. She has been a State senator, the Florida Secretary of State, and a twice-elected Congresswoman. She just won the Rep primary with about 50% of the vote and a victory margin of 185,000 votes over her nearest challenger. In sum, she has been a winner throughout her public career.

Why is she a net negative for the party? Because the MSM and Dems have demonized her because of Gore's loss in Florida in 2000? I also don't buy your premise that Quayle is another Rep pariah.

She has no talent. She has trouble with accepting bad news. And she doesn't appear to be able to tell truth from fantasy. Yuck!

Sounds like the Dem criticism of Bush. Katherine Harris' "problem" is that she is a winner.

During her term in the Florida state senate, Rep. Harris passed over one hundred bills, including an economic development package that helped fuel Florida’s dramatic rise from 42nd place to 1st place in the nation as a state to start a new business or grow an existing business; a significant increase in teacher salaries; and stiffened penalties for white collar crime and for crimes committed against the elderly. Cognizant of the tremendous economic benefits trade could bring to Floridians, Rep. Harris laid the strong foundation for Florida’s preeminent campaign to win the Permanent Secretariat for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), as well as working toward the unification of the Gulf region through the enhancement of investment, trade and tourism and cultural exchanges.

Rather than taking cover in the aftermath of the 2000 election controversy, Rep. Harris took the lead in the push for comprehensive election reform. In 2001, she testified before the U.S. House Administration Committee and proposed legislation that became the blueprint for Florida’s nationally acclaimed Election Reform Act. In 2002, as the reform movement waned in many states, she successfully proposed and achieved passage of historic civil rights legislation in Florida that forcefully addresses the exclusion of persons with disabilities from full and equal participation in the electoral process.

A former IBM marketing executive and vice president of a commercial real estate firm, Rep. Harris earned a Master’s Degree from Harvard University with a specialization in international trade and negotiations, and a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Agnes Scott College. She studied abroad at the University of Madrid and at L’Abri outside Geneva, Switzerland. Her commitment to public service has earned Rep. Harris numerous awards, including the Mel Fisher Award for International Trade Advocacy; the Florida Economic Development Council Legislator of the Year Award; the Florida United Business Association Outstanding Legislator Award; the Florida Arts Advocacy Award, the Sarasota Humanitarian of the Year Award and the Sarasota Statesman of the Year Award. Rep. Harris was born in Key West, Florida. She resides in Sarasota with her husband, Anders Ebbeson, and his 21-year-old daughter, Louise.

Harris has never lost an election.

This is not fooling around here. Her pride and priviledge is the ONLY reason she is still in this race. The money she used to finance her campaign was not money she had the discipline to earn. She has very little support at this level and she is costing us a chance at a Senate seat. Short of a stroke, I don't see how Nelson can lose to Rep. Harris. I am very familiar with the personalities involved and the politics. This is the kind of blue-blood Republicanism that gives our party a bad name. Her grand-father was a man to be admired. She was fine at the State level. She was over her head at the congressional level. She is completely out of her league at the Senate level. She will lose badly to an upopular incumbant who could have easiliy been defeated by a good candidate. Harris will lose by at least twenty points and she will attract almost no party support. It was the Republican party experts who were telling her she could not win, not the media.

And my reference to Quayle was not to denegrate a fine man, but you have to admit he was way out of his league in the Whitehouse. He got so nervous when asked questions he said incredibly stupid things. You can't do that. Not at that level.

Rep. Harris does well at women's clubs. That seems to be the total extent of her support and they constitute an echo chamber for her. Their voices seem to be the only ones she can listen too. I will vote for her, but I am a party line voter. If people like me were a majority, perhaps she could be elected. But I don't admire her, even a little.