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The reality of Marco Rubio’s dominance on Twitter

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As of Dec. 5, Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) followed a total of 3,013 people, and was followed by 6,708. While not John Mayer-like figures, they aren`t too shabby for an underdog opponent to popular Governor, Charlie Crist. A closer look at those numbers indicates that Rubio’s strength on Twitter is, as yet, of little electoral value to Rubio, who is counting on, you know, votes from Floridians to earn a seat in the U.S. Senate. Of the 3,013 people that Rubio…

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American Spectator interview with Marco Rubio

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Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio of Miami is one of the most conservative of the new names seeking U.S. Senate seats in 2010. He’s 38, the son of blue-collar Cuban immigrants, and he compiled a solid conservative record in eight years in the Florida House, the last two as speaker. Rubio is challenging Florida’s sitting Republican governor Charlie Crist for the nomination to the Senate seat Mel Martinez recently resigned from. But in his campaign speeches his political target…

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Human Events: The Other George LeMieux

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From Human Events: Florida Gov. Charles Crist’s appointment of his closest political associate, unknown George Lemieux, to the Senate may cause some harm to Crist’s own bid for the same Senate seat next year. Two weeks ago Crist made the appointment to fill out the remaining sixteen months of the term of fellow Republican Mel Martinez (who had resigned his Senate seat) the warning signs are clearly in sight. At first, supporters of the moderate Crist’s primary opponent, former Florida…

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Wall Street Journal blasts Charlie Crist’s pick of George LeMieux as ‘Cronyism’

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From the Wall Street Journal: Democrats have embarrassed themselves by naming political buddies to replace Joe Biden and Barack Obama in the Senate, and now a Republican is showing he can do the same. On Friday, Florida Governor Charlie Crist picked a long-time aide and political consultant to fill his state’s soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat, presumably as a placeholder until Mr. Crist can win the job himself in November 2010. The Florida vacancy is due to the strange decision by…

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Sunday editorial pages

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Let’s just say Charlie Crist is an editorial writer’s dream… St. Petersburg Times – Crist serves himself, not state, with appointment: Gov. Charlie Crist could have appointed a former congressman, a former legislator, a former Jacksonville mayor, a former state attorney general, or even a former U.S. attorney to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez. Instead, the governor chose his alter ego to keep the seat warm for 16 months as he campaigns for it. He might…

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Mel Martinez’s departure shows Hispanic rift

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From Breitbart: Florida U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez’s resignation closes the latest chapter in the Republican Party’s tumultuous, decade-long effort to woo the nation’s Hispanic voters. The Cuban-American’s impending departure could leave no Hispanic Republicans in the Senate and three in the House—compared to 21 Democrats in Congress—and a sense that the national GOP is at a major crossroads with the nation’s fastest-growing demographic group… Although most Hispanics outside of Florida have long leaned Democratic, the Republican Party earned the trust…

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If Rep. Jennifer Carroll really wanted to be a U.S. senator, maybe she could have typed the application…???

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Not to be picky or anything, but couldn’t Rep. Jennifer Carroll have mixed in a typewriter when she was filling out the questionnaire applying for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez:

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