John Campanelli has a
diary up today about the Republican candidate for FL-Gov being "outed". Whether or not Charlie Crist is gay is a distraction from the real issue here. We've got us a horse race for FL-Gov. We can talk about whether Crist should be "outed" or not (or do a poll, below), but let's concentrate on things we can control.
Jim Davis, the Dem in this race has finally gotten off the schnide here. Davis was dark for a month after the September 5th primary while he has to reload his coffers after a tough primary campaign. Now that Davis has been on the air for a while...
The rest of the story after the jump...
Kos noted in this diary that the FL-Gov race is finally showing signs of life. A recent Quinnipiac poll showed the race a statistical dead heat. Once Davis got on the air, he got right down to business as you can see
here. These kinds of ads have allowed
Jim Davis to pull even.
Last night Jim Davis and Charlie Crist had the first of their two scheduled debates. Adam Smith, the known Republican political editor of the St. Petersburg Times had this to say about last night's debate:
Davis, the underdog Democrat ... still came off as sharp, substantive and better-equipped with specifics than Republican Attorney General Crist.
Smith went on to say:
...Davis scored points when he repeatedly pressed Crist for not supporting tax relief for businesses and renters, and oddly Crist has yet to offer much of an answer for that. Crist has also sounded more flexible and open to tinkering with the FCAT than he did Tuesday night, giving no hint that he was open to changing anything about how the test is implemented.
But, predictably, Smith closed with this:
Jim Davis has been saying for months that voters are just starting to get to know him. He may have made a strong impression on some of those strangers Tuesday, and gave his supporters reason for excitement in the final stretch. Still, Crist walked away looking only slightly less like a clear frontrunner.
With 2 weeks to go, Jim Davis needs your help. In the primary, Republican controlled Big sugar spent $5 million trying to defeat Davis. They have kept their powder dry in the general election. So far. But there is no end to the lengths that Big Sugar will go to to keep Davis from getting elected governor. A good look at the whole sorry story of the evil sugar empire fan be found on YouTube.
The Sugar Slime is coming folks. You can almost taste it. Please help Jim Davis fight back.
Do you really want another Republican Secretary of State counting the votes in Florida in 2008?