Rick Scott is the Republican nominee for Governor in Florida for two reasons:
1) Scott won the counties of Duval, St. Johns and Clay by large margins. McCollum performed under expectations in Central Florida - he essentially tied Scott in Tampa - an area he should have won easily. (I underestimated Scott's ground game - he was in Jacksonville 3 times over the weekend).
2) Mike McCalister is a former Colonel and current teacher who received 10% of the vote last night in the Republican primary. This is a large amount for an unknown candidate. It may have been a protest vote because of the negative campaigning, but it wound up hurting McCollum - McCalister received over 100,000 votes and McCollum lost by 40,000.
I will have more on the Sink versus Scott race later in the week.
Matt - do you think the McCollom's apparent flip on immigration policy had a significant impact?
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