Florida 2014 Congressional Races

[Dereich]

Honestly, my view of FL-2 from living here is that it's not going to be the big race y'all are all hoping or expecting it to be. There is little to no talk about it in Tallahassee, even from the political types who are big into this sort of thing; the race for Governor and the upcoming session of the legislature are much bigger news around here. Either way, unless something wacky happens this is going to be a 2 or 3 point race and which side turns out more people is going matter much much more than who gets the very few persuadable voters.

[Dereich]

State Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto has been spotted meeting with the NRCC, most likely to enter the FL-19 race.

I have friends in the district who called this months ago. Benacquisto started running ads for her state senate reelection campaign suspiciously early and was probably planning to go for it either way. I'd be surprised if she wasn't the favorite to take the whole thing.