Gov Charlie’s chances dropping like a rock
August 1, 2008 at 11:28 am by Wayne Garcia… in the Veep Sweepstakes, apparently. The St. Pete Times deduces (”It’s elementary, my dear Watson”) that John McCain isn’t serious about choosing Chain-Gang Charlie as his vice presidential nominee because the public records needed to vett such a candidacy haven’t been requested from state government.
Things are looking so bad, in fact, that Florida Democrats are even calling out McCain, nee, begging the cranky old man to choose Crist. This from Florida Politics:
C’mon Johnnie, I challenge you to go with the empty suit.
How about the fact that McCain isn’t even running ads in Florida yet? Does that mean he doesn’t put this state in his top-tier concerns? Or that he plans to choose Crist and therefore won’t need those ads anyway? The Gov’s popularity rating is below 50 percent in one poll, and so it remains to be seen if the only thing that Crist had going for him — the ability to deliver FLA — is still viable.
Bonus cut: download the Wisconsin Advertising Project’s report on campaign ad spending, including data for Florida, in .pdf format.
