FL-SEN: Scott Pursuit

[wesmoorenerd]

I mean he aint look or live like 30 anymore, sure, but there has been plenty of evidence to refute the claims by some posters here that Nelson is senile and looks terrible:

http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/2017/09/22/on-the-run-with-sen-bill-nelson-no-signs-of-slowing-down/

If reelected, I am fairly sure Nelson is capable of serving out another 6 years in good shape and standing.

Anyways, Scott is younger but he is a senior citizen too.

All the talk about how Nelson is doomed because he's 75 (not even that old by politician standards) is just ageism, pure and simple. Nelson is just as competent as even and to claim otherwise is horrible baseless speculation.

Anyway, I've been optimistic about Nelson from the beginning, and it looks like it's starting to pay off. Nelson is clearly doing a better job than he was of getting his outreach efforts up and running and by the end of this race we'll be looking back and scratching our heads at why we ever thought he was vulnerable.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

I mean he aint look or live like 30 anymore, sure, but there has been plenty of evidence to refute the claims by some posters here that Nelson is senile and looks terrible:

http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/2017/09/22/on-the-run-with-sen-bill-nelson-no-signs-of-slowing-down/

If reelected, I am fairly sure Nelson is capable of serving out another 6 years in good shape and standing.

Anyways, Scott is younger but he is a senior citizen too.

All the talk about how Nelson is doomed because he's 75 (not even that old by politician standards) is just ageism, pure and simple. Nelson is just as competent as even and to claim otherwise is horrible baseless speculation.

Anyway, I've been optimistic about Nelson from the beginning, and it looks like it's starting to pay off. Nelson is clearly doing a better job than he was of getting his outreach efforts up and running and by the end of this race we'll be looking back and scratching our heads at why we ever thought he was vulnerable.

Me too. There has never been an single day this campaign season in the over a year now where I thought Scott would be the victor at the end of the battle. Every single day including today I have been saying Nelson will pull through. And y'all know me, my predictions are not exactly the friendliest to democrats (I am a rather pessimistic person) like I had Moore winning by 8 and Balderson winning by 6.

[IceSpear]

People love to knock Nelson, but consider how much trouble FL Dems would be in right now if he retired.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

People love to knock Nelson, but consider how much trouble FL Dems would be in right now if he retired.

Don't worry, in such a case Darren "2Luv" Soto would have our backs and win because he is a more conservative Hispanic Floridian!

http://gawker.com/congressional-candidate-wrote-about-banging-drunk-law-s-1771789249

[ajwiopjawefoiwefnwn]

People love to knock Nelson, but consider how much trouble FL Dems would be in right now if he retired.

[BudgieForce]

People love to knock Nelson, but consider how much trouble FL Dems would be in right now if he retired.

I cant think of anyone off hand who'd be doing nearly as well as Nelson. Rick Scott is a popular governor, Nelson is the only reason this race is even still a toss-up.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

People love to knock Nelson, but consider how much trouble FL Dems would be in right now if he retired.

I cant think of anyone off hand who'd be doing nearly as well as Nelson. Rick Scott is a popular governor, Nelson is the only reason this race is even still a toss-up.

Granted FL dems (not the voters but the party) are a mess.

[Arkansas Yankee]

Now Nelson is running on a Russia scare.  Panic must be setting for the old man.
 
To think he ran against Lawton Chiles in in the Democrat primary for Governor in 1990 on  the issue that Chiles was too old..  Mother Nature is striking him back by making him really look old.

[Politician]

Nothing to see above me, just Roy Moore's #1 fan saying Nelson is too old.

[Arkansas Yankee]

Nothing to see above me, just Roy Moore's #1 fan saying Nelson is too old.

I am not actually saying he is too old.  I am saying he looks too old. He also is a real hypocrite on the issue of age making some one to old to serve.

Why doesn’t he let a younger Democrat run.  I forgot there is no younger Democrat in line who could keep the seat.

[Xing]

Of all the things to attack Nelson on, age is a strange one. Did the same Republicans attacking his age think that McCain and Grassley should have retired in 2016? Or do they think that Trump and McConnell shouldn't run in 2020?

Similar to the Bernie-haters saying Bernie's too old, when the best attack someone can come up with is the numerical age of a candidate, it's pretty pathetic.

[Progressive Pessimist]

For another ridiculous Scott ad I saw he is now accusing Nelson of "steaing from Medicare". I LOL'd.

The gall! The absolute gall!

[MT Treasurer]

New survey of over 400 Latino voters shows Nelson ahead by 3 (44%-41%).

[TheRocketRaccoon]

New survey of over 400 Latino voters shows Nelson ahead by 3 (44%-41%).

Article here:

https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1029325423296110594

[GeorgiaModerate]

New survey of over 400 Latino voters shows Nelson ahead by 3 (44%-41%).

With ~400 total voters, some of those subsamples must be really small.

[krazen1211]

New survey of over 400 Latino voters shows Nelson ahead by 3 (44%-41%).

Hispanics in Florida often vote for the Republicans for Senate.

[KingSweden]

New survey of over 400 Latino voters shows Nelson ahead by 3 (44%-41%).

With ~400 total voters, some of those subsamples must be really small.

I’d really rather have a poll of the whole race than another poll of Latinos.

[Pandaguineapig]

The fact that poll is a D internal is even worse for Nelson, I don't understand why so many here have such a hard time admitting that he has been running a terrible campaign

[Pandaguineapig]

The fact that poll is a D internal is even worse for Nelson, I don't understand why so many here have such a hard time admitting that he has been running a terrible campaign

Nelson is easily the most overrated Senator on here, just read through the first six pages of this thread and you’ll see what I mean. It’s true that Nelson could obviously still win because of the national environment, but I’ve never undestood why people think he’s some destructive juggernaut who’s easily going to turn this into a VA-GOV 2017/FL-SEN 2012/etc. redux. Scott isn’t Mack and VA is wayyyy more Democratic than FL (especially when it comes to the White vote).

I think many people underestimate how more popular Scott is now than in 2014 and underestimate how much Nelson has slowed both mentally and physically since his last real race in 2000

[ajc0918]

FYI Patrick Murphy won Latinos by 2% in 2016 over Marco Rubio according to CNN's exit poll.

[BudgieForce]

Just poll the whole state. Sub-group polls are almost never accurate.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Nelson will be fine.

[Zaybay]

Just poll the whole state. Sub-group polls are almost never accurate.

[Bidenworth2020]

Moving this to lean r. Goddamn it nelson

[BudgieForce]

Moving this to lean r. Goddamn it nelson

I think its definitely Tilt-R right now, but its August and I'm confident that Nelson closing the spending gap will move it back towards his direction. He's also been campaigning quite a bit during the August recess. I dont know if Nelson wins in November, but I have hope he'll pull it out.