in b4 "franken used felons to steal election"

Martinez gets the SW back but can't close the deal in the East.  Nelson isn't quite enough to stop Martinez in FL.

 I think Florida would go to Clinton in this case. Nelson is popular in Florida and Martinez is Mexican not Cuban.

I wonder how soon a referendum for this would be viable in FL?  I imagine it will be the first Southern state to do it (someone will say VA, but it has to come out of the leg there and one house is ironclad R).

I think I explained this is another thread - gay marriage was constitutionally banned already, so you'd need an amendment to change it. For an amendment to go into effect it needs 60% of the vote.

Yep, which is why it's going to be hard anytime soon to do anything.

If anything this just shows how scared Republicans are of Hillary.

Charlie did flip, but so has most of America.

BTW I like your Kriseman sticker on your signature.

Joe Garcia(FL-26) and Patrick Murphy(FL-18) aren't on the NRCC list? Surprising

Edit: Garcia's district voted 53% for Obama so I guess that makes sense but Murphy's district was won by Romney

Charlie Crist just endorsed marriage equality on facebook:

Charlie Crist- about an hour ago

Some great news: On Tuesday, Delaware became the 11th state to allow marriage equality. And just a few days ago, Rhode Island adopted a similar measure, which followed victories last fall in Maine, Maryland and Washington. I most certainly support marriage equality in Florida and look forward to the day it happens here.

A third major party is in the works so I'm not going to prognosticate who's running yet.

Um what?

Good article, basically restates a lot of what we already know. I think with an effective ad campaign and a decent money advantage McAuliffe can win but who knows...

Meghan McCain has a point

@MeghanMcCain 7m
Really republicans? We're gonna get behind Mark Sanford and claim gay couples will ruin marriage. This is why young people don't vote GOP!!!

Time to begin the "LOL party of family values" tweets

From twitter:

@DavidLJarman
As #SC01 results come in, watch Charleston County. 41% of the dist's votes are here, and ECB needs at least 53% here to hit 50% overall.

I believe I read somewhere that ECB camp wanted 40% or more of the votes to come from here.

ECB 42.7%- 331
Sanford 56.8%- 441

Less than 1% in

Wooo hooo!

[RINOs]

I wouldn't necessarily say this hurts him. Most RINOs rank-and-file support these measures.

...Most of the Republican voters are RINOs then?

A few, not most.  I should of clarified myself and said most northeast Republicans are RINOs.

In other words, the ones who've been Republicans for generations are the RINOs?

lol they're so delusional

"Moderate-to-conservative" Bellevue? Maybe in the 90s. It's one of the most Democratic towns in the district, much more so than places like Auburn or Federal Way.

Is Federal Way really that democratic? My aunt and uncle live there. They're pretty conservative, that doesn't mean anything, but that's interesting.

Not too surprising, but if I were Haley, I'd be sweating.

lolz

I thought I'd share this, it's so ridiculous.

The current mayor:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130321/ARTICLES/130329900?tc=cr

Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe was arrested early Thursday morning on a DUI charge after he crashed his car in northeastern Alachua County and admitted drinking earlier in the evening, according to an arrest report.

The Florida Highway Patrol reported that the single-car accident happened about 2:20 a.m. in the area of Northeast 21st Street and 156th Avenue.

His challenger:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20060127/LOCAL/201270339

Gainesville City Commissioner Ed Braddy was arrested Wednesday night for driving under the influence after he sideswiped another vehicle with his van while trying to change lanes on NW 6th Street near NW 11th Avenue, according to a police report.

Police responding to the accident at about 10:40 p.m. gave Braddy, 33, a breath test that indicated his blood-alcohol level was 0.184, according to the report. Florida law prohibits driving with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08.

NOTE: Braddy's is from 2006, it seems the Lowe campaign is just bringing it back up to cover themselves up, my mistake.

I'd be cool if Baldwin can run for this seat too, and hold both Senate seats.

what

I wonder how a strong third party would effect the race. Would it benefit Scott or the Dems more?
And by strong I mean like 3%+ of the vote.

Do you consider The Olive Garden to be a
quality source of authentic ethnic food, or not?
Yes.................................................................. 39%
No ................................................................... 44%
Not sure .......................................................... 17%

The question made me lol

I'm sure somewhere out there, there were at least a couple of Hipsters so deeply seeped in their own irony that they voted for Romney ironically.

duh voting obama is too mainstream

He just released his proposed budget that increases education funding and gives teachers a $2500 raise. He's clearly not going to go down without a fight.

So many undecideds

Islamabad, naturally. The President is a Muslim, you see.

this made me lol