Posted on 08/31/2006 7:56:51 PM PDT by Rawlings
A new poll released by Survey USA shows US Rep. Katherine Harris with a large lead in the Florida Republican Primary. Harris is leading 45% to 22% over challenger Will McBride in the race to face Democratic senator Bill Nelson. This comes after a surge in support for McBride after a series of controversial comments by Rep. Harris.
They are supporting talent and santorum big time along with blackwell and steele. Yes they are also supporting dewine. It is about winning.
I'm sure Ohio would trade you DeWine for Harris.
Um .... Ohioans aren't crazy about DeWine, but if they traded for Harris they'd end up with Sherrod Brown as their Senator.
Katherine "Trainwreck" Harris is the most self-destructive candidate since .... ???
Alan Keyes got blown out but he never had a chance.
It would have been a tough race for Harris to begin with, but she had just drove her campaign straight into the ground, off the pier, into the ocean, down to an undertow, last seen floating by a group of Cuban refugees, going the wrong way.
BTTT
Floating ever closer to that iceberg in plain sight.
She got a little "snippy" with Medved the other day.
McBride and Collins are both good guys with absolutely no media campaign to get them past Katherine's name recognition. She could win this primary. Nelson will crush her.
What chance do the other two stand against Nelson?
In politics, you can't beat a somebody with a nobody. McBride is a nobody compared to Harris. Harris has made herself a nobody with the cruddy campaign she has run and her stupid comments. The GOP can write off Florida at this point.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/08/31/ap2985077.html
"If Rep. Harris had only one opponent she might be in deep trouble," said Peter Brown, assistant polling director for the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, which conducted the poll last week. "But having three candidates splitting the anti-Harris vote is a major plus for her."
Harris was favored by 38 percent of 317 likely Republican voters.
William McBride, a 34-year-old attorney, was supported by 22 percent; retired Navy admiral LeRoy Collins Jr. of Tampa was backed by 11 percent; and Peter Monroe, a real estate developer from Safety Harbor, received 3 percent.
"what chance do the other two stand against heer?"
Excellent point. I bet, slim to none. What she does have is name recognition and I think that gives her a chance to win.
Better. Nelson will take the independent vote by a wide margin. McBride apparently polls well in Dade and in the I-4 Corridor. That allows us to compete in Broward. Katherine turns this race into an Obama-Keyes laugher, which hurts the races downticket.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Thanks for the insight.
How do all four primary candidates stack up.
(sorry but that lawyer McBride is just as Unelectable as Harris)
She's coasting with a tidal wave of negative name I.D. close behind her. It'll swamp her if she stays in the race.
I was looking up pictures of William McBride and kept coming up with pictures of William (Bill) McBride. I was thinking, no way is this guy 34 years old. Then when you do a Will McBride search on Google you get some weird photographer's pictures of naked men. Anyway, I think I did finally see a picture of the guy--Hispanic American looking.
Really? I wish I had heard that.
What did she say?
Or what did Medved do to rile her up?
http://www.townhall.com/talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=4
Try this link to hear it (August 29, 2006). I can't pull this stuff up on my computer for some reason. Also, I missed the interview with McBride the previous day (also at this link). I was half listening both times I heard the interview (live and replay). I think she was getting irritated because he kept brining up her recent comments about electing Christians.
Yeah. He asked her questions. The very nerve!
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