# The Florida gubernatorial election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 6, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772 "2010-07-06T20:59:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/21 "2010-07-13T23:00:48Z")
> [@Wisthekiller](#): > > I’m on Brighthouse and they have a decently fair mix of Scott and McCollum pro and con commericals. I have NOT seen more that 2 or 3 Alex Sink commercials. I DO see Jeff Greene commercials more than Sink though. My guess is, the Sink campaign is so sure she has a lock on the nomination that they are saving their advertising money for the general election. When they will save even more, by running excerpts of those already-produced Scott/McCollum ads. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/22 "2010-07-14T01:24:43Z")
That would be my guess too. I haven’t seen any, although I see her face every day on the Division of Financial Services website… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/23 "2010-08-25T01:22:29Z")
Bay News 9 says McCollum and Scott are still running close, Scott a bit ahead. I watched some election coverage with a local Dem club and there were cheers every time the screen showed Scott ahead. The consensus seems to be that he’s much easier for Sink to beat. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/24 "2010-08-25T02:21:50Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Bay News 9 says McCollum and Scott are still running close, Scott a bit ahead. > > I watched some election coverage with a local Dem club and there were cheers every time the screen showed Scott ahead. The consensus seems to be that he’s much easier for Sink to beat. Scott’s up 46-43 with 78% of precincts reporting. This one’s pretty close to over. As for who’s better for Sink, the polls I’ve seen are mixed. She leads both candidates, but usually within the margin of error and there’s rarely more than a point or two difference between the 2 Republican candidates. Typical is a recent Quinnipac poll which had her 31-29 (20 undecided) over McCollum and 33-29 over Scott (again 20 or so undecided). Of course, Quinnipac’s been saying that McCollum was surging with a most recent 44-35 lead over Scott, so… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/25 "2010-08-25T02:32:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > [@Wisthekiller](#): > > > > I’m on Brighthouse and they have a decently fair mix of Scott and McCollum pro and con commericals. I have NOT seen more that 2 or 3 Alex Sink commercials. I DO see Jeff Greene commercials more than Sink though. > > My guess is, the Sink campaign is so sure she has a lock on the nomination that they are saving their advertising money for the general election. > > When they will save even more, by running excerpts of those already-produced Scott/McCollum ads. 😉 Aaand it’s primary night, Sink has announced her victory, and I just saw the first Alex Sink ad I’ve ever seen on TV. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/26 "2010-08-25T03:26:46Z")
[Scott beats McCollum.](http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/2010/august/139414/Businessman-Rick-Scott-wins-Republican-nomination-for-governor) Sink vs. Scott. Place your bets. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/27 "2010-08-25T11:27:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Aaand it’s primary night, Sink has announced her victory, and I just saw the first Alex Sink ad I’ve ever seen on TV. I’ve been seeing one for about a week now. Did the one you saw show McCollum and Scott dopplegangers arguing while Sink talks about how much she dislikes negative campaigning? > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Scott beats McCollum.](http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/2010/august/139414/Businessman-Rick-Scott-wins-Republican-nomination-for-governor) > > Sink vs. Scott. > > Place your bets. Sink will start out ahead. Scott will try to tie her to Obama and Crist. This will work (because people are idiots). By October, it’ll be neck and neck with Scott maybe even having a slight lead. The last half of October will be a money-fest like Florida’s never seen, the Dems will have a dozen PACs throwing mud at Scott whilst Sink stays on the high road. The tide turns in the last week or so and Sink wins in a nail-biter. The upside for Florida is that most of Scott’s stolen federal money will get spent here in Florida as will TONS of national democratic money. TV station and print shop owners will single-handedly resurrect the fancy yacht industry. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/28 "2010-08-25T13:30:38Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > > Aaand it’s primary night, Sink has announced her victory, and I just saw the first Alex Sink ad I’ve ever seen on TV. > > I’ve been seeing one for about a week now. Did the one you saw show McCollum and Scott dopplegangers arguing while Sink talks about how much she dislikes negative campaigning? No, this election-night spot made no mention of her opponents at all. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/29 "2010-08-25T14:36:08Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > Sink will start out ahead. Scott will try to tie her to Obama and Crist. This will work (because people are idiots). By October, it’ll be neck and neck with Scott maybe even having a slight lead. The last half of October will be a money-fest like Florida’s never seen, the Dems will have a dozen PACs throwing mud at Scott whilst Sink stays on the high road. The tide turns in the last week or so and Sink wins in a nail-biter. Sink leads early, Scott leads in the middle, Sink regains lead and wins election on strength of an across-the-board Democratic boost after better than expected economic recovery figures just prior to election day. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/30 "2010-08-26T15:19:47Z")
I must admit, I did not see this coming. McCollum is an experienced politician, Florida AG, former Congressman. [Rick Scott](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_scott) is what you might call the “Tea Party insurgent” – but how can even the Tea Partiers stomach this sleazebag? Does anyone here want to make a case for voting for him in November? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/31 "2010-08-27T00:19:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Does anyone here want to make a case for voting for him in November? Sure! He’s an expert at getting money out of the Fed. He might steal, but put him in the mansion and he’ll steal for us! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/32 "2010-08-27T00:25:20Z")
I don’t know anything about Scott, but Florida is a purple state. If you manage to out-Red McCollum, you’re pretty sure to be too conservative for Floridian voters at large. Barring _exceptional_ voter stupidity above and beyond the average, Sink will be able to coast to victory just by mining Scott’s primary quotes. If they’re anything like Rubio’s, there’s lots to choose from (“I blame crist for accepting stimulus money” = “Rubio wants to send our tax dollars to other states and slow down our recovery!”) ---
**Author:** ![waitingforamiracle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dbc845/32.png) [@waitingforamiracle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waitingforamiracle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/33 "2010-08-27T01:23:03Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > > [@Simplicio](#): > > > > Gotta [win the primary](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/other/2010_florida_primary.html) before leading in general election polls helps you, and McCollum appears to be behind in the most recent of those. Agree that without a major scandal, McCollum almost certainly would win the Governors mansion _if_ he can get nominated. Also agree that Scotts a pretty crummy candidate and if he gets the nomination its probably a toss up between him and Sink. > > The expected GOP primary bloodbath certainly help Sink regardless of who wins the Republican primary. > > This is one of those years when I want a none of the above selection. Why don’t we just not have a Governor for four years, what could go wrong? I’m with you on this one 100% 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/34 "2010-08-27T11:55:23Z")
[McCollum has refused to immediately endorse Scott.](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-mccollum-wont-endorse-20100826,0,2282345.story) > [@](#): > > he [McCollum] has “serious questions” about Rick Scott’s integrity and honesty and will not endorse — at least for now — the man who beat him in the Republican gubernatorial primary. He pulled this last time he lost too, but finally caved and endorsed his opponent a few days later. Scott will now have to begin fundraising from the same people he’s been blasting during the primary. Those Party “insiders” who were (according to Scott) “crying in their cocktails” after his win. The Sink campaign has also stated that they consider the multiple investigations into Scott’s companies (Columbia/HCA, and Solantic Urgent Care) as fair topics for the general campaign (although supposedly they don’t intend to go negative). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/35 "2010-08-27T13:18:37Z")
I have serious questions about Rick Scott’s integrity and honesty, too. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/36 "2010-09-01T22:14:29Z")
Breaking news: [Bud Chiles is about to drop his independent bid.](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/09/01/bud-chiles-expected-to-end-bid-for-fla-governor/) Which is good news for the Sink campaign. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/37 "2010-09-01T22:17:42Z")
So, one thing we haven’t yet discussed in this thread: Who would make the better governor? [Alex Sink.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Sink) [Rick Scott.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_scott) Make your arguments. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/38 "2010-09-02T01:44:05Z")
Sink easily. She’s at least not **actively** a crook. She’s also had 4 years in state government. I’m REALLY tired of government by amateurs. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/39 "2010-09-06T23:43:22Z")
[As of 09/01/10, Rassmussen puts it at 45% for Scott, 44% for Sink.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_gubernatorial_election,_2010#General_election) That’s post Chiles dropping out. I saw Sink on TV yesterday and she said she wants five debates. Think it’ll happen? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772/40 "2010-09-06T23:55:12Z")
[The first debate, on children’s issues, is scheduled for October 16 at the University of Miami.](http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/01/1802923/florida-gubernatorial-debate-to.html) “Sink told Lawrence that she intends to participate, while Republican Rick Scott is still in talks with organizers.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florida-gubernatorial-election/545772.md?page=3)