Are you in Florida? McCollum is not a good campaigner. Scott has a much better chance to beat Stink. He will swamp her with money and a strong Republican turnout.
Agree, we’re here in Orlando. Voted for McCullum, as he’s a decent guy without any baggage. However, Scott is a fierce campaigner, has tons of $, takes no prisoners, and was an early vocal supporter of the tea party movement here. In this election cycle, minus the HCA baggage, he’d be the darling of the national conservative right.
A couple of thoughts...First, it’s going to take the demoncrats a ton of $ for Ms. Stink to compete. That’s $ that will be siphoned from other rat gubernatorial candidates. On repub side, the opposite... National party (RGA) won’t have to throw any $ in; Scott’ll self fund. Second, I’m looking at the turnout #s and they are astounding. Nearly 450,000 more repubs than dems voted today (will be >1.3 million on the repub side alone!!). And, that’s with competitive dem race on the senate side. Unless the repubs totally fracture over Scott’s win, he will beat Stink - she’s a lackluster candidate, has run below expectations, and is totally tied to the Marxist Obama agenda. She’ll spend the next 70 days running hard and fast away from Barry, but I don’t think she’ll be able to pull it off.
As an aside, I heard from a state legislator here that Obamacare - via its unfunded dumping of huge #s of new bodies on the state Medicaid rolls - will increase Florida’s already monstrous deficit ($3Billion) to upwards of $5-6 Billion. Unemployment in our state hovers around 12%, foreclosures are off the chart (nearly 2/3 of the homes sold in our county have been short sales or foreclosures), people are moving out in droves, tax revenues are plummeting. In this environment, Stink’s going to have a really tough time (remember, she was state CFO in time of an horrific ledger sheet) convincing Floridians that Scott’s personal baggage is worse than continuing this course which has the state careening out of control to California levels of insolvency. And, Scott has been one of the loudest and most consistent opponents of Obamacare from the start (Stink was a supporter). Should be the linch-pin issue.
Last thought on Scott: some folks are predicting that good ol’ Jeb Bush will emerge as the repub party “healer” and bring the establishment and Scott together. Repubs - for short term and long term (congressional redistricting, Obamacare suit, pres 2012) reasons - can’t afford to have a dem in charge in Tallahassee.
Finally, re Bondi: see turnout and Obamacare issues above.
Never a dull moment in Florida!