Your base can be energized all it wants, but when our base is energized and we get the lions share of the Indies, then you lose. Your guy won't run as well in So. Fla. as Gore did. Oh, he'll win So. Fla.. Don't get me wrong. I live here. I know. However, Jeb! is ahead in the I-4 corridor and in No. Fla.. Decisively ahead in W. Fla. Jeb is a known and respected quantity. GW Bush didn't have the respect that his brother has now. That's why the state election was so damned close.
Politics is done by regions. McBride knows he can only pump Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach without having to pull out the vote fraud machine. That he doesn't want to do, because he knows that the Department of Justice will be monitoring this election.
Bottom line? People who say the money doesn't matter don't know their facts from the gerbil up Richard Gere's a$$. Money is EVERYTHING in the closing weeks of the campaign. It allows Jeb! commercials to appear where yours are supposed to be, and allows Jeb! to get his ground troops mobilized as McLawyer is running out of cash.
When day after day of negative and positive ads are run on your behalf, they begin to dominate the airwaves. Jeb! was a smart little squirrel. He let McLawyer spend his money, like the inexperienced candidate that he is, in the flush of McBride's victory over Reno.
Now Jeb is sitting on between five and seven mil. McBride is wondering where his money from the DNC is.
Going to the tight Senate races all over the country, that's where.
And when Big Brother comes in to campaign with him?
Game over.
Be Seeing You,
Chris