You'd think they would take a break and give us a break, but they didn't.
The "Big Three," Kendrick Meek, Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio, were hot on the campaign trail just a few hours after the election officials declared winners in the Florida Primary election.
Fresh from his hard fought and often ugly Democratic Primary contest with billionaire Jeff Greene, Meek chatted it up with workers at Metrorail's repair yard Wednesday. The sun was barely up.
Rubio debuted a new campaign commercial on YouTube and was stumping in Tampa. Always on message, the West Miami Lawyer, Tea Party favorite and former house speaker repeated his mantra: "If you like what is going on in Washington, vote for the other candidates, if not, vote for me."
Meanwhile, Crist breezed into an early morning St. Petersberg rally. He told his admiring supporters that the historic three way race for U.S. Senate had "nothing to do with political parties at all, it was about people."
When then Republican Governor Crist looked at the Senate match-up between him and Conservative Republican Rubio and decided to bolt the party, the set up was there for an epic Florida political story. Rubio, the former House Speaker, Meek a sitting congressman, and Crist, the Governor and a veteran of state-wide elections, are in the early stages of a slow motion shoot-out. It reeks of a three-way Godzilla smack down.
"This is going to be a cut throat election," said Nova Southeastern University's Dr. Charles L. Zelden. He said Meek's victory was sweet music for Rubio, who sees Meek draining Crist's moderate and left-leaning Democrats.
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"Does the far right message resonate with the voter of Florida? If it does the Republicans will sweep," said Zelden. "If it does not, it leaves the door open for Democrats and Independents like Crist."
