Poll: Rubio Has Double-Digit Lead In Florida GOP Senate Primary

Well, since the primary isn't until August, maybe Charlie is hoping the right-wing surge will have abated by then. Otherwise, he's looking to get whipped.

And, no, he's not going to switch to the Dems.

I think he's going to go indie. He could carve out the middle 40% leaving 35% to Rubio and 25% to Meek.

I think this could be the reverse Lieberman. With Dems voting strategically for Crist realizing that Rubio is so toxic.

Crist could also frame himself as "Florida first" not "Party/ideology first" and could claim the center saying as Governor he did what he thought was best for Florida regardless of how it would look politically. he knew the stimulus spending was right for Florida even if the Republican ideologues didn't like it.

If Rubio's lead gets any bigger they won't need Katherine Harris.

Rasmussen's analysis points directly to the likely cause of Crist's problems: "Crist's fortunes appear to be tied in part to national unhappiness over President Obama and his policies."

Bullshit. It's not "national" unhappiness with Obama's "policies". At most, nationally there is unhappiness with slow pace of implementation of those policies. The policies themselves, when presented without partisan spin, enjoy majority support (see recent polling on public option, repealing DADT, federal support for jobs, etc.)! Nobody who actually supports Obama's policies, but is unhappy with the pace of implementation, is going to vote for either Crist or Rubio.

Many conservatives began rebelling against Crist when he became one of the few Republican governors to embrace Obama's $787-billion economic stimulus plan last year.

This I can believe. It's a conservative reaction, not a national one.

Are John "Boner" and Charlie "Christ" competing for the most unnatural skin color in the Republican population? These men are bizzare! And ridiculous.

As a Floridian, I think this is insane!!! Anybody who is even thinking about voting for Marco Rubio has gone off the deep end...and has forgotten to look to see if their was any water in that pool. Rubio is nothing but a roboton to the infection of the outsider tea-baggers who know nothing about the people of the state of Florida. I do not think Charlie Crist's problem is President Obama, I know the President is well-liked here in Florida, at least in my corner of the state and other parts where I do have people I talk to. And I don't think Rasmussen is polling people who are not Republicans. Republicans supposedly have to sign a "purity clause" to qualify as "true conservative Republicans....well, that explains a lot.....Crist is moderate, and the moderate voice the state of Florida needs.....please, we have been embarrassed enough by politics in this state, and a vote for Rubio will make us the laughing stock we can't hope to recover from~

One's cute, the other's orange. And the third is, well, meek.

I read somewhere that if Gov. Crist became a Democrat he could be the Democrats 60th vote in the senate. Well after seeing the 60 Democrats in action this last year I don’t think they could pass legislation with 90 votes. So what is the point? Now before you all go crazy---I am a yellow dog Democrat and was just reflecting on what I have seen.