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Billionaire @Greene4Florida touts his outsider status

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidateĀ Jeff Greene had just finished a meeting on the Space Coast, when he was stopped by a reporter. The governor was calling for a special session to ban offshore oil drilling, and Greene was asked if he supported a constitutional prohibition of the practice. Greene said he opposed drilling, but he wouldnā€™t address the constitutional question. Then he said he hadnā€™t given it much thought. Then he said, ā€œI canā€™t see why Iā€™d be against it.ā€ Greene…

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National Review: Why I am not worried about Marco Rubio yet

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From National Review: Lots of readers are looking at new polls in Florida and getting worried about Marco Rubio.Ā Iā€™m not, yet. Iā€™d like to see Rubio leading, obviously, but a couple of things are jumping out at me in recent polling. 1.Ā DemocratsĀ are wavering between Crist and Meek. Until April, Kendrick Meek was above 20 percent in a three-way matchup; since then, the bottom has fallen out; in the last four, heā€™s hit 15, 17, 15, and 14 percent. This is…

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National Review: Why I am not worried about Marco Rubio yet

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From National Review: Lots of readers are looking at new polls in Florida and getting worried about Marco Rubio.Ā Iā€™m not, yet. Iā€™d like to see Rubio leading, obviously, but a couple of things are jumping out at me in recent polling. 1.Ā DemocratsĀ are wavering between Crist and Meek. Until April, Kendrick Meek was above 20 percent in a three-way matchup; since then, the bottom has fallen out; in the last four, heā€™s hit 15, 17, 15, and 14 percent. This is…

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Politico: Dems flirt with backing Charlie Crist

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Politico writes what many in the Democratic Party have been thinking: The emergence of a politically unknown billionaire self-funder in theĀ Florida Senate race is prompting top Democrats in the state to say publicly what some have been whispering for weeks: If Jeff Greene, who got rich betting on the collapse of the housing market, becomes their nominee, many in the party will have the cover they need to get behind Republican-turned-independent Gov. Charlie Crist. Establishment Democrats in Florida, for now,…

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DSCC says it’s firmly behind Kendrick Meek

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From NBC’s Mark Murray:Ā In Florida’s Senate race,Ā Kendrick Meek (D) is trailingĀ Charlie Crist (I) andĀ Marco Rubio (R) in general-election polls. And according to a new Quinnipiac survey, he’s leading wealthy primary challengerĀ Jeff Greene (who’s friends with Mike Tyson and Heidi Fleiss, and who made his money off subprime mortgages) by just two points. But in a roundtable discussion with reporters today, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ChairmanĀ Bob Menendez said that his committee is fully behind Meek. Asked if the DSCC would object…

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DSCC says it’s firmly behind Kendrick Meek

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From NBC’s Mark Murray:Ā In Florida’s Senate race,Ā Kendrick Meek (D) is trailingĀ Charlie Crist (I) andĀ Marco Rubio (R) in general-election polls. And according to a new Quinnipiac survey, he’s leading wealthy primary challengerĀ Jeff Greene (who’s friends with Mike Tyson and Heidi Fleiss, and who made his money off subprime mortgages) by just two points. But in a roundtable discussion with reporters today, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ChairmanĀ Bob Menendez said that his committee is fully behind Meek. Asked if the DSCC would object…

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