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Final numbers show that for the first time since early voting began in 2004, more Republicans than Democrats cast early ballots. The Miami Herald estimates that this amounts to an early jump-start of approximately 100,000 votes for Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Scott, or a five percent lead.
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Politico takes us back inside the claims that former President Bill Clinton suggested to Kendrick Meek that dropping out of Florida’s three-way Senate race would be best for the party. This time, unnamed sources say that the White House was involved, and that the plan was discussed way back in April, when Crist was first contemplating an independent Senate run.
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Clinton made a pit stop in Orlando on Monday night, speaking to approximately 1,000 rally attendees in an attempt to bolster Meek’s campaign and the Democratic ticket. No mention was made, according to the Palm Beach Post, of the drop-out drama.
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Crist’s last minute sales pitch includes a suggestion that he has covert supporters who will take him over the top: “At virtually every stop, at almost every place we went, a Republican or a Democrat would come up to me and whisper to me and say, ‘Listen, my uncle’s an elected representative. He’s a Republican. I don’t want the cameras to see me, but I want you to know my whole family is going to vote for you but we haven’t told a soul.’ It’s like this covert operation around Florida.”
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Rubio, meanwhile, has told supporters that his campaign’s rag-tag beginnings helped it remain principled: “When you don’t have money and you don’t have organization, all you have is your message and your core beliefs. Most campaigns when they’ve got a lot of money and a lot of staff, they don’t ever establish those core beliefs. I’m glad that’s how we started and I’m really glad that’s how we’re finishing.”
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The tight gubernatorial race is bringing back flashbacks from Florida’s 2000 recount debacle. Campaigns are lawyering up.