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GOP Florida Senate Hopes In Trouble?
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| Contributor | Tony82 |
| Last Edited | Tony82 Sep 11, 2004 07:24pm |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Sep 10, 2004 12:00am |
| Description | What ought to be one of the best chances for the Republicans to pick up a seat in the U.S. Senate this fall could go up in smoke if the still smoldering embers of a GOP primary conflagration cannot be extinguished.
Less than two weeks after former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez won the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Florida with 45%, his leading rival has yet to endorse him to succeed retiring Democrat Sen. Bob Graham.
Smarting from what one key supporter called "mean-spirited, desperate and personal" attacks by the Martinez campaign, former Rep. Bill McCollum (who placed second in the primary with 31%) last week told reporters he would not back Martinez until he and Martinez could hold a private meeting. But after 10 days that meeting had not been scheduled.
By contrast, Democrats have enthusiastically united behind former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Betty Castor, who swept to victory in the Democratic primary by a two-to-one margin. |
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