Crist's race for center fizzling in Senate race (LOL!!! Screw you Charlie!!)

Reuters ^ | September 15, 2010 | Jane Sutton

[St. Louis Conservative]

(Reuters) - Florida Governor Charlie Crist's strategy of taking the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans in his campaign as an independent for a Senate seat is failing.

The slight edge Crist held over Republican "Tea Party" favorite Marco Rubio in August has evaporated and turned into a wide deficit as he courts what appears to be a fast- shrinking moderate vote.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Wednesday showed Rubio far ahead in the three-way race to succeed Republican Senator George LeMieux, with support from 40 percent of likely voters. Crist had 26 percent while Democrat Kendrick Meek had 21 percent.

Florida's U.S. Senate election is widely viewed as a referendum on President Barack Obama's handling of the economy, and Rubio appears to be landing knockout punches bashing Obama.

Florida's 11.5 percent jobless rate is nearly two points higher than the national rate, half the Florida homes that sell are foreclosures or short sales, and local governments are struggling with budget gaps because property tax revenues fell when the real estate market crashed.

In this state, it's a tough sell trying to convince voters that the $787 billion stimulus package Obama pushed through last year to kick-start the collapsed economy did anything to help them.

One of the rare establishment Republicans backed by the "Tea Party" movement that wants limited government, lower spending and opposes Obama, Rubio blasts the package as reckless and wasteful.

[headstamp 2]

Crist is having his “Joementum” moment.

[rhinohunter]

Pretty soon he will start flailing about and even taking Conservative positions. All it will do is cause the white rats to abandon him. I predict he will end up in single digits by election night.

[November 2010]

That picture is funny, but I don’t get the pancake thing?

[November 2010]

Oh, that’s awesome video. I sent it out to the Floridians I know.

[NonValueAdded]

it's sorta like post-turtles. Don't know how it got there but you know it doesn't belong. In other words, consider it to ask "what the heck are you talking about."

I don't think that was the intention in the pic of St. Charlie, patron saint of the metro-sexual set, but the faux halo does look like a pancake, doesn't it?

[NonValueAdded]

I sit corrected, I see from the link in #15 that it is a pancake portrait.

[jmaroneps37]

I said this over and over since February: Marco will get 54%. Of course I did not know charlie would pull his stunt, but my prediction still holds ( although it might go up to 60%).

[reagan_fanatic]

When you have no core values, the voters see right through it.

I think you should qualify that with 'at this particular time and in this particular race'. Dims are still gonna win a lot of elections this year, which doesn't exactly speak well for a sizable percentage of the voting public's intelligence.

[reagan_fanatic]

A pancake on the head is also an old Freeper in thing like stuned beebers and Helen Thomas pictures

Ahhh yes - Helen Thomas. What a babe...