K&R for Charlie Crist to get out of the Florida Senate race!

[Ken Burch]

The man has no real support. He has not come close to being ahead of Rubio. And there's no reason to think he'd caucus with OUR party if he did win(right-wing independents can't be trusted).

Crist has had his chance. He's proved he can't win. He needs to go. And all advocacy for Crist the Splitter needs to end on DU!!!

[still_one]

1. That may be what you wish for, but it won't happen, and if both meek and crist stay in the teaparty

candidate WILL win

The real question is who do the independents want between Meeks and crist

[csziggy]

2. K&R

[DonCoquixote]

3. K and R

Meek would not be so weak if we did not have DINOs trying to slash his Achilles tendon from day one!

[Kermit77]

4. Crist is the one who should drop out - not Meek

K&R

Crist should drop out. He couldn't even win his primary.

Besides Meek is the only African-American candidate running in the whole country. We need to rally around him just for that reason. If he doesn't win there will be no African American in the Senate at all. Hasn't America come further than that?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. Hey, Alvin Greene is running

:sarcasm:

[inna]

5. The way I see this is that Crist doesn't even attempt to act as anything BUT a Republican,

with an exception of the letter after his name. Hell, even Arlen Specter looked like a raging progressive and an enthusiastic convert, in comparison.

[FreeState]

6. K&R

[Pab Sungenis]

7. Crist dropping out will do nothing.

A good chunk of his supporters, probably the majority, will switch to the Republican. About half of the rest will stay home.

Kendrick Meek was a weak candidate from the beginning. The conventional wisdom that Crist would win the Republican nomination and go on to win the general kept good candidates out of the race. Now we're stuck with the weakest candidate we could have put up. Meek can't win, and won't win.

[quaker bill]

8. A better candidate, such as?

the bench in FL is not all that deep.

Secondly, in the absence of Crist, I don't think Meek's chances are all that bad. The tea party has a solid presence here, no doubt. However, I do not think it is a majority. Rubio has neared his peak. People intending to vote for Crist are doing so because they do not like the Tea Party, and the vast bulk of them are Dems and independents who have seen the Tea Party in Rubio and reject it. They are intending to vote for Crist as a way to defeat Rubio. There is not all that many of them that would switch to Rubio, very very few.

The dynamic where this race would have worked for Crist is a situation where he had captured enough ofthe republicans to drive Rubio down into the mid 30's. It is clear that Crist cannot get that done. Most polls have Rubio at 80+ percent of the republican vote. Crist should step out and let the chips fall where they may.

[blondeatlast]

9. Big K, Big R! nt

[SoCalDem]

11. Won't matter, really.

Rubio will win vs Crist/Meeks
Rubio will win vs Meeks
Crist would have won vs Meeks

Kendrick could have won another house term easily and when the next senatorial race happened, he might have had a real chance at it, but he jumped in too soon..

[bigwillq]

12. K and R (nt)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. I'm Voting For Meek Because He Has A (D) After His Name And Crist Is A Lost Cause

But he has run a lackluster and pitiful campaign. However if the race was tied and Meek was a distant third I would vote for Crist but it isn't.

Anybody who knows Florida politics and I think I do having grown up in Florida, having received a graduate degree in political science from a Florida university , and having worked on statewide campaigns, knows in this political and economic environment, that without Crist siphoning off soft Democrats, independents, and soft Republicans from Rubio Meek would be getting crushed.

Meek was the sacrificial lamb put up by the Democratic party because prominent Florida Democrats assumed Crist would be a shoo in.

Florida is a tough nut for Democrats. That's why only three Democrats have been elected governor and senator in the past thirty years and two of them have been the same person.


All that being said, Crist is sparing Meek the indignity of losing by twenty to thirty points.

P.S. With all due respect the original poster knows as much about Florida politics as I know about Alaska politics. He needs to worry about Dan Miller, Sarah Palin, and the Murkowski machine.

[Vickers]

14. A curse on any DUer who supports Crist-Nader!!!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Blue_In_AK]

15. K&R,

and while we're at it, Lisa should get out, too. I'm so pissed at her I could spit.

[blondeatlast]

16. k