Wow. Just seven months after unrolling his grassroots insurgency campaign, Marco Rubio has "officially" become the front runner for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Rubio leads Crist 47%-44% in a poll of registered Republicans. Ok Marco, you've taken the lead. What are you going to do now?
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Margins Matter
As the country is digesting the special election for a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, eyes now are fully upon Marco Rubio. After elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and now Massachusetts, conventional wisdom suggests that a path to victory over the "Obama phenomena" has become quite clear: fiscal conservatism (downplay social conservatism), limited government, strong national defense, and anti-health care reform (or at least anti-current health care reform efforts). For Marco Rubio in the Senate race in Florida, and even House candidates in PA like Josh First, this has to be music to their ears.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Improbable and Inevitable
One went from inevitable to improbable, and the other from improbable to inevitable. There is a sense of disbelief spreading among Charlie Crist supporters, much like that spread among Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters, that that upstart – "that guy" – has come out of nowhere. Clinton supporters lamented, and now Crist supporters lament, that their candidate had paid their dues; it was to be their time.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
"Assailable" Crist
Where to begin… Okay, since I last left you all – the Governor has named George LeMieux, his former Chief-of-Staff as a Senatorial placeholder. The Tea Party movement has led an impassioned grassroots effort to pushback against the President Obama led Democrats and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) alike. The head of the RPOF, Jim Greer (who garnered significant heat for backing Governor Crist against Speaker Rubio in the primary) has resigned. And lo and behold, Marco Rubio has considerably narrowed the polling (and financial) gap between Crist and Rubio in the Republican primary. That was a significant four months.
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