| His argument was that a Rubio win would bring with it an energized base to work in the general election.
But what he and others seem to be forgetting is that partisanship can run both ways.
I know that Kendrick Meek is dismissed because he is not polling well as of today. But, six months ago Rubio was dismissed for that same reason.
At least Bill Cotterell wrote an ironic piece about this whole issue of predicting races with the correct implicit conclusion that none of us really has any idea of what might happen six months from now.
What I am seeing is that the rise of the Tea Party is bringing with it a rise in activity of people who were involved in the Obama campaign. Things like the dig Sarah Palin made as quoted in the title are great motivators.
The structure of Organizing For America is still very much around. Many of its members are quite ready to take up a call for action.
Eventually, some statewide candidate will start making direct appeals to students based on the idealism that was an outgrowth of the Obama campaign. Gelber or Maddox seem like the most likely possibilities for making such a move. But the entire statewide slate would benefit from it.
Florida has an opportunity to elect its first African-American senator, its first woman governor.
Hey, we made history in 2008, why can't we keep making history in 2010?
As long as there's a Tea Party to fire us up, I think there's still Hope for Change. |
