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New Rasmussen poll: Marco Rubio leads Kendrick Meek by 17%, Charlie Crist leads Meek by 15%:

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Update – 12:27 p.m. – Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio has now jumped to a 12-point lead over Governor Charlie Crist in Florida’s Republican Primary race for the U.S. Senate. Other highlights: Sixty-two percent (62%) of GOP Primary voters have a favorable view of Crist while 37% regard the governor unfavorably. Those figures include 19% with a very favorable opinion and 11% who have a very unfavorable view of him. Rubio is viewed favorably by 67% of primary voters…

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Crist Campaign: Charlie Crist will not run as a Democrat or Independent

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After new poll showed his GOP Senate primary challenger Marco Rubio taking a narrow lead, Florida’s Republican governor Charlie Crist met Barack Obama today in Tampa Bay, where the president announced $8 billion in stimulus funding for a high-speed rail stations. Having been needled relentlessly by Rubio for supporting the stimulus and hugging Barack Obama at a rally last spring, might Crist’s willingness to appear again with Obama signal, as The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait suggested, an openness to switching…

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CNN analysis of Charlie Crist v. Marco Rubio: ‘This one’s pretty ugly’

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As primary battles go, this one’s pretty ugly. The intra-party Republican fight in Florida between Gov. Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio is full of fireworks… Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, said, “The Republican Party’s long had different wings on cultural issues, but that’s a very different kind of fight than the GOP experienced in New York 23 and that the party’s having in Florida right now, where economic issues, such…

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Video of Charlie Crist admitting he supported Obama’s stimulus plan

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Charlie Crist: “I reiterated my support for the federal stimulus package.” Update: November 16 Rolling Stone is reporting that when asked if he would have voted for the stimulus, Crist responded: “Absolutely.”

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In the face of declining poll numbers, here’s what Charlie Crist can do to save his campaign

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A new St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald/Bay News 9 poll finds only 42 percent of likely Florida voters think Charlie Crist is doing a good or excellent job as governor — by far the worst approval rating of Crist’s 34 months in office. Dear Charlie, It’s been a long time since I helped out on one of your campaigns. In fact, I think the last time we worked together you were running for…the U.S. Senate (do you remember the time when,…

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Red State blog: What Charlie Crist hath wrought on America

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From Red State: Behold Florida’s new Senator. He is Charlie Crist’s errand boy. George LeMieux is undecided on government run healthcare and he supports Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. He has taken his first act as a Senator: he blocked a plan to allow drilling off the Florida coast. Charlie Crist’s errand boy continues doing Charlie’s errands. Do we want LeMieux’s keeper in the Senate? Heck no. Support (Marco) Rubio.

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Marco Rubio tweeks Charlie Crist over support of stimulus

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Marco Rubio twee(ks)ts in: “Florida unemployment now highest since 1975. The stimulus package my opponent supported is really working well, isn’t it?” As blogger Adam Graham points out, it sure doesn’t sound like Rubio is still considering leaving the race. If he was, he’d play nicer. But it still looks like he’s playing for keeps.

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