Crist has considerable influance in Florida inspite of his defeat in the Senate race.
You do know the asinine shape of West's current district correct?? It took an EXTREME gerrymander to cook that one up. Problem for the GOP was the voters passed a referendum in 2010 forcing the districts to be compact. West could have drawn the district himself, and it would not have saved him.
This had nothing to do with what influence Crist did or did not have. This had to do with the current law in Florida that no longer allows for the extreme of the extreme gerrymanders that happened last time around resulting in that district.
