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February 28, 2011 10:28 A.M.

How Rubio’s Campaign Dominated the Online Fight

By Jim Geraghty

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As the 2012 cycle begins to warm up a bit, I hope candidates and their campaigns carefully study what worked and what didn’t last cycle. This video, from the firm Targeted . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

December 6, 2010 4:39 P.M.

Guess Which Party Charlie Crist Ended Up Dividing?

By Jim Geraghty

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Hey, remember when the Charlie Crist–Marco Rubio fight was going to tear apart the Florida Republican party? Right storyline, wrong party. After more than an hour of heated discussion, the Palm Beach . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

October 29, 2010 12:55 P.M.

Mason-Dixon: ‘The Math Isn’t There’ for Anything But a Rubio Victory

By Jim Geraghty

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This is beautiful poll analysis. The poll — which comes on the heels of revelations that former President Bill Clinton last week reportedly urged DemocratKendrick Meek to get out of the . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

October 28, 2010 10:00 P.M.

Crist and Clinton Pushed Meek Hard to Drop Out

By Jim Geraghty

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This is an interesting 11th-hour story going on in Florida, but we’ve reached a point where I simply don’t trust something coming from the Crist camp. And as for Bill Clinton . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

October 28, 2010 7:13 A.M.

Quinnipiac’s Last Poll in Florida Seems . . . Just Plain Weird.

By Jim Geraghty

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We will know whether this poll is on the mark in a matter of days, but Quinnipiac’s latest results in Florida seem a little odd to me: In the Florida U.S. . . .

Tags: Alex Sink, Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott

October 13, 2010 7:04 A.M.

What Is Charlie Crist Up To?

By Jim Geraghty

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Word is Charlie Crist is announcing something today. My guess is he’s pursuing his dream of being a Major League Baseball pitcher. Quinnipiac tells us the Florida Senate race is unchanged: In . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

October 12, 2010 11:51 A.M.

Florida Independents Fleeing Democrats Obama and Meek

By Jim Geraghty

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We pretty much knew this, but it’s nice to see new numbers confirming the trend: “President Barack Obama’s swing through Miami raised funds for his party on Monday but, according . . .

Tags: Barack Obama, Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek

September 30, 2010 6:59 A.M.

Wow: Quinnipiac’s Latest in Florida: Rubio 46, Crist 33, Meek 18

By Jim Geraghty

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A couple races are looking a bit shaky for conservatives, but they can rejoice at the news in Florida: Republican Marco Rubio holds a solid 46 – 33 percent likely voter . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

September 3, 2010 12:01 P.M.

Marco Rubio Has More Than the Senate Race on His Mind Right Now

By Jim Geraghty

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Marco Rubio will not be debating Kendrick Meek on Meet the Press Sunday. Miami, FL – Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate campaign spokesman Alex Burgos today issued the following statement: “Unfortunately, the health . . .

Tags: Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

August 30, 2010 4:52 P.M.

Perhaps He’s Afraid He’ll Lay an Egg

By Jim Geraghty

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Miami Herald: “Gov. Charlie Crist is not joining his rivals for the U.S. Senate, Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek, this Sunday on MSNBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’” Cluck-cluck. “The governor has long planned Labor Day events, . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

August 26, 2010 11:59 A.M.

Rasmussen: Rubio 40, Crist 30, Meek 21

By Jim Geraghty

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Hey, remember when I kept pointing out that Marco Rubio hadn’t advertised on television in months? And the suggestion that once he started, he should start to see a bump . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

August 25, 2010 12:32 P.M.

Imagine How He’ll Poll Once He Actually Starts Running Commercials

By Jim Geraghty

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Marco Rubio’s expenditures on television advertising since May 1: $0.00. UPDATE: Until now. . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

August 25, 2010 9:43 A.M.

Marco Rubio’s Primary Vote Total Is Almost Twice Kendrick Meek’s.

By Jim Geraghty

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Last night in Florida, the Democrats had a hotly contested Senate race, while Rubio’s primary win was assured. Yet roughly 1,059,000 voted for Rubio in the GOP primary, while about 909,000 . . .

Tags: Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

August 24, 2010 8:31 P.M.

GOP Turnout Way Ahead in Florida?

By Jim Geraghty

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Can this be right? In the GOP primary in Florida, a foregone conclusion for Rubio, 787,122 total votes cast. In the Democratic primary, an actual competitive race between Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene, . . .

Tags: Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

August 24, 2010 8:22 P.M.

It’s Rubio vs. Crist vs. Meek.

By Jim Geraghty

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CNN projects Kendrick Meek will win the Democratic Senate primary in Florida. That is fantastic news for Marco Rubio, whose victory speech was interrupted by CNN breaking in to announce Meek’s . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

August 22, 2010 9:44 P.M.

Will Negative Ads Prove Counter-productive in Florida This Year?

By Jim Geraghty

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One of my regulars offers an assessment from Florida . . . Voters are EXHAUSTED with the negative ads. This might be something building down there. Anyone without a real message . . .

Tags: Alex Sink, Bill McCollum, Charlie Crist, Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott

August 12, 2010 11:47 A.M.

Jeff Greene Hits Meek Below the Waterline: His Taxpayer-Funded Car

By Jim Geraghty

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I get e-mails from the Senate campaign of Jeff Greene, Florida Democrat, several times a day, often reminding me how his primary rival, Kendrick Meek, is history’s greatest monster. After . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

July 30, 2010 9:16 A.M.

Florida’s Poll Numbers, Stuck in a Holding Pattern

By Jim Geraghty

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Quinnipiac’s latest poll in Florida’s Senate race . . . looks a lot like the previous ones: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist leads the three-way race for the U.S. Senate seat with . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

July 29, 2010 7:16 A.M.

Florida Loves Wealthy Outsiders!

By Jim Geraghty

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It appears this was the wrong year to be a member or former member of the U.S. House of Representatives running for statewide office in Florida against a guy with . . .

Tags: Bill McCollum, Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek, Rick Scott

July 8, 2010 9:11 A.M.

Rasmussen Puts Rubio Back in Front Again

By Jim Geraghty

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The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, July 1: “Has Marco Rubio peaked too early?” Rasmussen, today: Rubio 36, Crist 34, Meek 15. As as I noted earlier this week, Rubio’s campaign been off . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

July 6, 2010 9:56 A.M.

Look Closer at the Florida Airwaves

By Jim Geraghty

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Charlie Crist will probably try to remain mum on whether, if elected Florida’s next senator, he would vote to make Harry Reid (or Chuck Schumer or Dick Durbin) or Mitch . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

June 23, 2010 11:03 A.M.

Somebody Wake Up the DSCC’s Cartographer

By Jim Geraghty

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On the DSCC’s website is a map of the Senate races this year, and the races that are described as “targeted.” Oddly, in quite a few states, the DSCC is convinced . . .

Tags: Chuck Grassley, Kendrick Meek

June 22, 2010 1:14 P.M.

The Greene and Meek Debate

By Jim Geraghty

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Florida Democrats are already enduring a Senate front-runner who’s polling in the mid-teens in a three-way race (Kendrick Meek); they probably cringed during this morning’s rough-and-tumble debate: The debate seemed to . . .

Tags: Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek

June 21, 2010 4:50 P.M.

Why I’m Not Worried About Marco Rubio, Yet

By Jim Geraghty

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Lots of readers are looking at new polls in Florida and getting worried about Marco Rubio. I’m not, yet. I’d like to see Rubio leading, obviously, but a couple of things . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Jeff Green, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio

May 24, 2010 1:02 P.M.

Kendrick Meek Is Still Running, Right?

By Jim Geraghty

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Another poll puts Charlie Crist ahead in a three-way race for Senate from Florida, but I suspect Marco Rubio will catch up in this survey eventually, just as he caught . . .

Tags: Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio