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The U.S, Senate race between George LeMieux and Adam Hasner continues to heat up, with LeMieux issuing a snarky release blasting Hasner for calling attention to LeMieux’s French heritage. Specifically, Hasner is distributing a bumper sticker that says “LeMieux: It’s French for Crist.” It’s part of Hasner’s effort to hang Crist, the moderate former governor who lost to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio last year, on LeMiuex, who at various times was the governor’s chief of staff, the “architect” of his campaign and Crist’s appointee to the U.S. Senate.Today, LeMieux issued a release calling attention — “In Case You missed It”...

Mike McCalister, who got 10% of the vote in the Republican primary for Governor last year, continues to lead the GOP Senate field in Florida.  He's at 17% to 13% for George LeMieux, 9% for Adam Hasner, and 3% for Craig Miller with 58% of voters undecided. That has to be seen as very good news for Bill Nelson.  McCalister's chances of winning the nomination in the end are close to nothing.  But the fact that he's leading is reflective of a pretty weak pool of Republican candidates and also a lack of enthusiasm for any of those folks from...

Nothing concrete, but this nightmare scenario has been on our collective radar screen for so long that it only stands to reason that something must be up. Simply put, Meek can’t win; with less than a month to go, there’s no longer any doubt about it. Even if Crist dropped out and endorsed him, he’d probably still lose to Rubio as centrist Republicans in Crist’s camp tilted back towards the GOP nominee. Meek’s only role in this race at this point is to make Rubio’s path to the Senate nice and easy, which he’s doing a splendid job of.

In two open-seat Senate contests, fourth- quarter fundraising reports confirmed that one-time GOP front-runners are falling back to earth in their respective primaries. Nowhere is that more evident than in Florida, where Gov. Charlie Crist (R) faces a primary against former state House Speaker Marco Rubio. Crist’s $2.1 million in fundraising during the quarter was down from the $2.5 million he raised in the third quarter and $4.3 million he raised in the second quarter of 2009. And as Crist’s totals have decreased, Rubio has watched his fundraising take off. Rubio posted his best quarter yet during the final three...