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Politics: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's ditching of the Republican Party was supposed to liberate him in his run for U.S. Senate. Now he's frantically trying to escape identification with the Democrats' dismal record. Earlier this month, Crist the political shape shifter told a hall filled with elderly liberal Democrats that he thanked God he was no longer a Republican. But he's obviously also praying that no one will think he's a Democrat. Last Friday, Crist was asked about his position on ObamaCare by CFLN-TV in Orlando. "I would have voted for it, but I think it can be done better,...

Yo mama jokes have no place in a Senate debate. Jeff Greene learned a very important lesson Tuesday. Don't talk about Kendrick Meek's mama. Once he did that at a U.S. Senate debate between the two leading Democrat candidates, Meek unleashed a stare that would scare back some of the oil in the Gulf. Greene, a billionaire, accused Meek of scoring his mother a job with a developer to whom Meek helped steer federal funds. Meek said he was just trying to create jobs and angrily replied: "How dare you attack my mother?" Meek's mother is former U.S. Rep. and...