Meek’s strategy: Rally Democrats

By at 25 August, 2010, 2:26 pm

Crist, Rubio and Meek in Florida’s U.S. Senate race Kendrick Meek – the self-described “only real Democrat” in Florida’s three-way U.S. Senate race — won’t be changing his campaign strategy for the general election. Meek needs just 75 percent of Democratic voters and 17 percent of independents to get more than a third of the total vote, campaign manager Abe Dyk said in a memo released to reporters on Wednesday. Meek, who won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, faces Republican Marco Rubio and independent Charlie Crist in the general election. His first goal is to persuade Democrats to abandon Crist, setting up a Meek-Rubio contest. “In Florida — where Democratic registrations outpace Republicans by more than 600,000 and independents are likely to make up 18 percent of the electorate — this race will be won

by turning out the same Democratic base that just entrusted Kendrick with the party’s nomination,” Dyk asserted. Many Democrats, however, are attracted to Governor Crist’s moderate brand of politics, which he touted on Wednesday. “Washington is broken. It’s a swamp of partisan bickering, finger-pointing and destructive political games,” Crist declared. “We have huge problems in this country and in this state, but instead of working together to fix them, the gridlock is worse than ever. I am running as an independent to change that.” Crist has refused to say whether he would caucus with Democrats or Republicans in the Senate if elected, an important factor of many voters. So, will Democratic voters stay with Meek, or will they turn to Crist?

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