Apparently Independent Bud Chiles is about to drop out of the Florida governor race. Florida, in other words, remains in a political “state of chaos,” as the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato puts it to me. You’d think Chiles exiting would help Democrat Alex Sink — the Chiles name being “golden among Democrats” there, as Sabato puts it. But not necessarily. As Sabato points out, Chiles “was also drawing a significant number of Republicans and Independents.”