Sorry Charlie! Flipper Tanking in Florida Senate Race

Rubio (R) 40%    Crist (I) 28%    Meek (D) 23%


TEA Party favorite-son Marco Rubio continues to build on a lead first established just a few weeks ago... and in a Senate race that began with Crist out-front and with far more money.

But as the nation's rapidly-changing political climate worked against serial opportunist Crist, it's become apparent this unprincipled political chameleon picked the wrong time to flirt with Team Obama and the "progressive" Left. 

Besides the fact Crist looks like a ruthless, power-addicted snake -which of course he is- the ill-advised liberal policies he's glommed-onto have now become political poison. With support imploding while the electorate in Florida -and most everywhere else- stampedes back to the right, a desperate Crist increasingly resorts to leftist-style scare tactics... and Rubio's tailights just keep getting smaller-

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.

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