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Kendrick Meek Wins Democratic Senate Nod in Florida
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 24) -- Kendrick Meek, an African-American congressman whose early support from Bill Clinton helped dissuade other Democratic challengers from running for Florida's vacant Senate seat, handily turned back a challenge from real estate investment billionaire Jeff Greene in the Sunshine State's Democratic senatorial primary. On the Republican side, Marco Rubio was easily nominated against token opposition, having chased Gov. Charlie Crist out of the GOP Senate primary -- and out of the Republican Party itself -- earlier this year. The upshot of Tuesday's election returns is that Meek's ...
Kendrick Meek Wins Democratic Senate Nod in Florida, But Faces Uphill Fight
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyKendrick Meek, an African-American congressman whose early support from Bill Clinton helped dissuade other Democratic challengers from running for Florida's vacant Senate seat, handily turned back a challenge from real estate investment billionaire Jeff Greene in the Sunshine State's Democratic senatorial primary. On the Republican side, Marco Rubio was easily nominated against token opposition, having chased Gov. Charlie Crist out of the GOP Senate primary -- and out of the Republican Party itself -- earlier this year. The upshot of Tuesday's election returns is that Meek's defeat of ...
Kendrick Meek Wins Florida Democratic Senate Primary
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 24) -- Rep. Kendrick Meek cinched Florida's Senate Democratic nomination by defeating political upstart Jeff Greene on Tuesday, and veteran politician Bill McCollum battled novice Rick Scott in the state's GOP gubernatorial contest as voters weighed the merits of establishment candidates vs. wealthy outsiders. Elsewhere, Sens. John McCain and Lisa Murkowski counted on voters to reward political experience as they faced spirited Republican primary challenges in Arizona and Alaska 10 weeks before the general election. Nominating contests in five states - Vermont also was ...
Charlie Crist Needs Jeff Greene to Win Tuesday's Florida Senate Primary
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCharlie Crist, waging an independent campaign for Senate in Florida, is probably crossing his fingers for billionaire Jeff Greene in Tuesday's primary to choose the Democratic candidate because that's the outcome best for Crist in the three-way general election contest that includes Republican Marco Rubio. If Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek emerges as the party's nominee, Rubio leads Crist 40 percent to 32 percent with 17 percent for Meek, 3 percent for Libertarian Alex Snitker and 8 percent undecided, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Aug. 21-22. But Crist is significantly ...
Primaries Tuesday in Alaska, Arizona, and Florida: Insurgents vs. Old Guard
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyThe biggest contest in Tuesday's primaries is Florida, where races that once looked like sure things got scrambled. It started with conservative insurgent Marco Rubio's challenge to Gov. Charlie Crist's bid for the GOP Senate nomination, followed by more surprises when wealthy political outsiders jumped into the battles for the Democratic Senate and GOP gubernatorial nominations in April and shook up those races. But now, the theme of the Florida races may end up being "The Establishment Strikes Back" -- and the same can be said of the day's other two primaries in Alaska and ...
Florida: Meek Looks Headed to Victory in Senate Race; Governor Contest Is Tight
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyDemocratic Rep. Kendrick Meek is running ahead of billionaire Jeff Greene in the race for the party's Senate nomination in Florida in two just-released polls a day before Florida's primary. Meanwhile, Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum leads former health care executive Rick Scott by a slim margin in one of the surveys of the GOP gubernatorial race, and trails him slightly in another. The two polls come on the heels of a Mason-Dixon Research survey published over the weekend that had Meek ahead by 42 percent to 30 percent but with 25 percent still undecided, and McCollum in the lead by ...
Kendrick Meek, Bill McCollum Hold Leads Going into Florida's Tuesday Primary
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe primary battles for Florida's GOP gubernatorial nomination and the Democratic nod for senator will be settled by voters on Tuesday, and the latest poll shows that the trends continue in favor of the two candidates who were the initial front-runners before wealthy challengers shook up the races. Four-term Rep. Kendrick Meek leads billionaire Jeff Greene in the race for the Democratic Senate nomination by 42 percent to 30 percent, with 25 percent undecided, and an additional 5 percent scattered over other responses, according to a Mason-Dixon Research poll conducted Aug. 17-19 for The Tampa ...
Latest Florida Poll: Good News for Alex Sink, Charlie Crist in Governor, Senate Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyDemocrat Alex Sink appears to be benefiting from the bitter primary fight for the GOP gubernatorial nomination between state Attorney General Bill McCollum and former health care executive Rick Scott, while independent Charlie Crist has the lead for now in the Senate race no matter who wins the Democratic primary, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Aug. 11-16. Sink, the state's chief financial officer, leads McCollum 31 percent to 29 percent, with 12 percent for Democrat-turned-independent Lawton "Bud" Chiles and 31 percent undecided, preferring some other candidate or not ...
Kendrick Meek, Bill McCollum Back on Top in Florida Primary Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAfter two wealthy political newcomers shook up Florida's primary races in both parties, the original favorites -- Democratic Senate hopeful Kendrick Meek and GOP gubernatorial contender Bill McCollum -- have regained their footing and pulled back ahead of their challengers, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Aug. 11-16. The new survey confirmed the trends in some other recent polls that, after falling behind their better-funded opponents, Meek now leads billionaire Jeff Greene in the Senate race and McCollum is running ahead of former health care executive Rick Scott. Meek ...
Kendrick Meek Builds Lead Over Jeff Greene in Fla.'s Democratic Senate Contest
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAfter initially getting staggered by the entrance of free-spending billionaire Jeff Greene into the Democratic Senate primary race in Florida, Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek is building a lead over Greene. A new Mason-Dixon Research poll shows him ahead by 40 percent to 26 percent, with 6 percent preferring another candidate and 28 percent undecided. The poll, conducted Aug. 9-11 and with a margin of error of 5 points, contrasts with Mason-Dixon's Aug. 2-4 survey, which had Meek ahead by only 33 percent to 29 percent. An even sharper contrast was a Quinnipiac University poll conducted July ...
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