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On Tue, 4 May 2010 17:25:54 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Tue, 04 May 2010 18:01:07 -0400, hk
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...in the latest Rasmussen survey of Florida voter preferences for the
general election, 38% to 34%.

Rubio, of course, has the Republican primary locked.

The Democrat in the general election race hasn't the name recognition
yet of Rubio or Crist.

Could be the most interesting general election in the country this fall,
with Rubio getting the hard-right mindless conservative voters, Crist
pulling moderate Republicans and some Indys and Dems, and maybe winning,
or spoiling Rubio's chances, giving the Dem the edge.

I don't have a horse in the Florida U.S. Senate race, but if Crist or
the Dem beat Rubio, it'll be a slam on the mindless right, and *that*
can only be good for America.

Most Floridians haven't really figured out Meek is a black guy so I am
not sure the polls are really all that accurate.
I do expect this to get nasty. Don't be surprised if the recurring
rumor that Crist is gay pops up.


Do you think Meet's race would be an issue? Obama won Florida and he was
born in Keny.. oh never mind.


Obama might not win if the election was held today.
Rubio is Cuban and will carry a lot of the same counties Obama
carried.

There are also a lot of people who wanted SB6 that Crist originally
supported, then vetoed. That was the one that made teacher pay
coincide with teacher performance and limited tenure. There are a lot
of parents here who are ****ed that the school board spends $17,661
per student ($1.4B/80400 students) and our graduation rate is 53%.
They think something is dreadfully wrong with the school system.

This thing is like FCAT where the better off schools, with parents at home
to help the kids and make sure they did thier home work got better scores
and funding was tied to those scores.
It was probably just typical pie in the sky optmism and no conspiracy but
the way it worked out is it benefited the affluent and screwed the poorer
schools and kids. I think the merit pay tied to student grades would end up
driving good people away that happen to be working in schools that don't
score well and never havea hope of making better than the crap pay that they
start with. What professional would stick around if the only chance for a
pay raise was based on the performance of others that had no concern for
better performance on thier own part?
It all sounds good in theory but sucks in practice.


There are also plenty of people who think all that stimulus money,
that Crist hugged Obama for, seemed to pass them by.

If Crist loses Miami Dade and Broward, I doubt he can win because the
red counties will go for Rubio.

Meek may get a significant amount of the Jacksonville vote and he will
probably carry his predominately black (51%) West Miami Broward
district but he has really run unopposed there so we don't really know
how he would do with some actual competition. He only had about 13% of
the electorate turn out last time. In the end,
I see Rubio and Crist splitting about 75-80% of the vote.
I don't have a good prediction yet, November is a long way away but if
I was really pressed my money would be on Rubio if the election was
held today.

I looked up the history of parties in this country and since George
Washington (an independat) we always been a 2 party system. No wonder it's
so hard to pull our collective heads out!!!