I think that when it comes to election time Rick Scott will have a decently compelling jobs record. Of course, that means nothing when your reputation is a bad as his is, but still it might be enough against a hack like Grayson. In a rematch against Sink though, he'd need a lot of luck and quite a bit of that fortune of his.
Scott will probably recover a bit, and I think he'd win this race. This would be a perfect race for Crist to enter as an Independent, where I think he'd have a serious chance.
You know, I was just thinking the same thing. Democrats I know tolerate him because they are desperate and I know a few old republicans who forget that he isn't governor anymore but I'm not sure where his popularity numbers come from.
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