FAR RIGHT RETREATING ACROSS FLORIDA

Yesterday was a fairly bad day at the polls for Florida's right wing extremists. First off, they are now saddled with the insupportable and clearly delusional Katherine Harris as their U.S. Senate candidate. Polls show her losing to unpopular conservative Democratic Bill Nelson by as much as 30 points. Over and above that many of the furthest right candidates were trounced in primary contests across the sunshine state. Violent neo-Nazi and anti-choice extremist Randall Terry challenged mainstream conservative Jim King in a state senate race-- and lost 2-1. But even more crucial than the loss by the clownish Terry, was another state senate win. Senator Alex Villalobos won his re-election grudge match against a puppet of Jeb Bush. Bush was furious at Villalobos for helping to derail Bush's attempt to repeal a voter referendum that had mandated reduced class sizes.


The governor's race saw far right fanatic Tom Gallagher sink without a trace, swamped by mainstream conservative Charlie Crist (who Gallagher's campaign tried to paint as gay). In the 13th CD two Republicans will face off against each other in November-- multimillionaire car salesman and extremist loon Vern Buchanan and Republican-turned-fake-Democrat Christine Jennings (Rahm Emanuel's handpicked corporate shill) will see to it that Katherine Harris' old district gets no meaningful choice.

I suspect the next time I mention Florida will be to let you know how badly Harris lost to Nelson. Salon's got a preview of that today.