Crist Is Slipping in Bid for Senate

[James]

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, battered by rivals as a political opportunist, is losing ground in his quest to build a bipartisan voter coalition and win a U.S. Senate seat as an independent.

The latest attack came Wednesday in a new Democratic Party ad featuring clips of the ex-Republican, who is courting Democratic voters, praising George W. Bush and Sarah Palin and saying he is "about as conservative as you can get."

Mr. Crist had been leading the state's three-way Senate race in surveys taken after he abandoned his failing Republican primary campaign in April and switched to independent, presenting himself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to both parties. His campaign envisioned a formula of centrist Democrats, liberal Republicans and independents—a counterweight, strategists thought, to the tea-party movement boosting his chief competitor in the race, GOP nominee Marco Rubio.

But surveys now show Mr. Rubio, a former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, taking the lead and Mr. Crist dropping into a battle for second place with Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek, a congressman from the Miami area. Mr. Rubio is ahead among independents and Mr. Meek is beating Mr. Crist among Democrats, according to a Mason-Dixon poll released over the weekend.

The survey showed 40% of voters backing Mr. Rubio, 28% Mr. Crist and 23% Mr. Meek.

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[BM OUT]

How can this be.He will be the frontrunner for the republicans in the presidential campaign and has a good chance of beating Obama.

[Soul Crusher]

How can this be.He will be the frontrunner for the republicans in the presidential campaign and has a good chance of beating Obama.

And of course - blacks are acting like the typical lap dogs they are in not calling out Crist for what he is doing in this.  Meeks may be a bad candidate, but the voters at least should get a Rubio - Meek race vs that sore loser Crist.  I seriously have no clue why blacks act the way they do when it comes to politics.     

These fools though Crist would drain conservative votes when all that happened was thatt hey drained Meek votes. 

[James]

Didn't 240 tell us Crist would win ?

[240 is Back]

Dint 240 tell us Crist would win ?

I still think he will be the winner.  I'm voting rubio, personally.  But I think crist's experience on "GOTV" will be very helpful, and many teachers and dems will break his way when they're actually in the booth.

[Soul Crusher]

I still think he will be the winner.  I'm voting rubio, personally.  But I think crist's experience on "GOTV" will be very helpful, and many teachers and dems will break his way when they're actually in the booth.

240 - all Rubio has to get is 40% and he wins.  Did you see RCP today? 

[James]

I still think he will be the winner.  I'm voting rubio, personally.  But I think crist's experience on "GOTV" will be very helpful, and many teachers and dems will break his way when they're actually in the booth.

To be honest, I really don't know much about Rubio. but I have heard it on more than one occasion (on the radio), that some think he will be President one day.

[Soul Crusher]

To be honest, I really don't know much about Rubio. but I have heard it on more than one occasion (on the radio), that some think he will be President one day.

He is sporting a wierd comb-over. 

Bald guys don't get elected. 

[240 is Back]

240 - all Rubio has to get is 40% and he wins.  Did you see RCP today?  

you think all the meek voters will walk into the polling booths and vote for the guy who is polling at 23%, Meek.  I do not.

it Rubio was up by 12 points, and it was something like 56 to 44%, i'd say Crist is toast in this race.  But Currently, 6 out of 10 voters are anti-Rubio.  That ain't good.  It's a stretch, but enough Meek voters switch up, and enough Rubio voters stay home (repubs have lost 3% overall congressional support from aug to sept in polling)... and Crist's team is better on election day.

So yeah, I still think there's a chance crist pulls it off.  Hopefully, those of you with a brain will not interpret this as kneepadding, but rather as political prediction.  Some ppl have no ability to separate those two.

[Soul Crusher]

you think all the meek voters will walk into the polling booths and vote for the guy who is polling at 23%, Meek.  I do not.

it Rubio was up by 12 points, and it was something like 56 to 44%, i'd say Crist is toast in this race.  But Currently, 6 out of 10 voters are anti-Rubio.  That ain't good.  It's a stretch, but enough Meek voters switch up, and enough Rubio voters stay home (repubs have lost 3% overall congressional support from aug to sept in polling)... and Crist's team is better on election day.

So yeah, I still think there's a chance crist pulls it off.  Hopefully, those of you with a brain will not interpret this as kneepadding, but rather as political prediction.  Some ppl have no ability to separate those two.

  Crist is broke, no money or organization, and has little GOTV efforts.  Rubio has the whole party behind him, which is good for at least 40%. 

[BM OUT]

you think all the meek voters will walk into the polling booths and vote for the guy who is polling at 23%, Meek.  I do not.

it Rubio was up by 12 points, and it was something like 56 to 44%, i'd say Crist is toast in this race.  But Currently, 6 out of 10 voters are anti-Rubio.  That ain't good.  It's a stretch, but enough Meek voters switch up, and enough Rubio voters stay home (repubs have lost 3% overall congressional support from aug to sept in polling)... and Crist's team is better on election day.

So yeah, I still think there's a chance crist pulls it off.  Hopefully, those of you with a brain will not interpret this as kneepadding, but rather as political prediction.  Some ppl have no ability to separate those two.

Keep dreaming.Rubio will win by 12 pts at least.It will be a landslide and Crists career will be to go into gay granny porn.He is a loser and ZERO blacks will come out for him.

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By the way,240 mocks the fact Meek is polling at 23% Crist is at 28% .You would think Crist is killing him by reading 240s post.Crist can barely squeek by an idiot.The debates are coming up,Rubio will take a 20 point lead after people hear what an absolute dolt Crist is.