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search.  early and often  Bill Clinton Not As Persuasive As We
All Thought  The state of the three-way Senate race in Florida
is this: Republican, tea-party-backed Marco Rubio is leading
every poll by margins between seven and twenty points. In second
place is Florida's governor, Republican Charlie Crist, who's
been running as an Independent since dropping out of the GOP
primary he was certain to lose to Rubio. And in third place is
Kendrick Meek, the Democrat. Crist is a very moderate Republican
 so moderate that it's assumed he would caucus with the
Democrats if he ever made it to the Senate  and gets much of
his support from Democrats. As does Meek. Which is why neither
of them are going to win if both stay in the race.  Obviously,
this is a terrible situation for the Democratic Party and the
White House, both of which are doing everything they can to
maintain a mere one- or two-seat majority in the Senate after
their impending November 2 r