Lesser-Known Candidates Want To Be ‘Better-Known'

U.S. Senate race packed with the not-so-usual suspects

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You've heard the household names running for U. S.Senate: Rubio, Crist, Meek.

But there are about 20 more names you have not heard of – all of them yearning to be Florida’s next senator.

Republican Dr. Marion Thorpe is one of them. He’s running on a true conservative platform, with an emphasis on fixing America's health care system.

“The effort in DC was to make a sweeping reform, in fact we're not even sure how we're going to pay for this thing,” said Dr. Thorpe. “There are some promises about reductions in Medicare coverage on out to 2014, but in reality it's baby steps, slow and steady gets the race won,” he said.

Dr. Thorpe is one of 24 people running to replace Florida Senator George Lemieux. There are seven write-in candidates, six Independents, five Democrats, four Republicans, one Libertarian and one from The Constitution Party of Florida.

Jeff Greene is another lesser-known Senate candidate. He’s a Democrat, but back in 1982 ran for office in California as a Republican. One election and out, said Greene, who insists his Democrat roots run deep.

Greene made a fortune in the recent sub-prime mortgage real estate meltdown, in essence betting against America's housing market.

“What I did is I made one sided investments against the biggest banks on Wall Street and I won,” said Greene. “I think the people of Florida need somebody like me in Washington to go up against the power brokers and special interests in Washington, like I went against those banks on Wall Street.”

Regarding those three names you do know – a recent poll has Independent candidate Charlie Crist winning with 38 percent. Republican Marco Rubio is in second place with 34 percent. Democratic frontrunner Kendrick Meek rounds out the popular names with 17 percent.

The Rasmussen Reports telephone poll was done on May 3rd. It has a margin of error of +/- 4.5%, which means Crist and Rubio are virtually tied.

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