It's part of a pattern that has shown itself in the last days of the campaign. Mr. Crist said he opposed state intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, but Michael Schiavo's attorney corrected the record last week by noting that Mr. Crist's office had argued in favor of intervention three years ago. Mr. Crist said he favored civil unions between gays and lesbians, but The St. Petersburg Times reported in 2005 that he had signed a petition for a constitutional ban on such unions.
When it comes to fights, Crist is state's lightweight
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But what Tuesday's election seems likely to illustrate is that the laws of thermodynamics -- in particular, the one that states that for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction -- have not been repealed. Upstate New York, the Philadelphia suburbs, Connecticut's tweedy enclaves and the Microsoft precincts surrounding Seattle seem poised to show that they've had it with the party that restricts funding for stem cell research.
In Arizona and Colorado, secular libertarians have grown estranged from the party that invested the power of the federal government in the cause of keeping Terri Schiavo in a vegetative state.
Harold Meyerson: How the GOP lost the North
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Charlie Crist snubbed President Bush for tomorrow. He was hanging with his NY homey Giuliani today instead. They should just change Florida to New Yorkida bec that's where CC got most of his campaign war chest.