Thursday, February 07, 2008

Tampa Bay: The Midway Island of 2008

So writes S.V. Date over at TNR. According to Date, Charlie Crist's endorsement of McCain saved Johnny's bacon, and if not for Crist, Mitt would be "would be counting down the delegates to 1,191."

Here's the postscript to the article:

"S.V. Dáte has covered Florida politics for a dozen years. His most recent book is Jeb: America's Next Bush."

Interesting.

2 comments:

SheaHeyKid said...

Well, the endorsements almost certainly gave McCain the position he is in today. Which again makes you wonder what back-room deal he struck to get these 11th hour endorsements, and what does he owe Crist and Martinez???

Fredo said...

Apparently Crist felt that he owed McCain due to McCain's campaigning on Crist's behalf during his gubenatorial run. But I'm sure he'll give Crist something in return. Of course, short of the veep slot (which I don't think he'll give Crist), there's not much he can offer him that's better than Gov of FL. So probably the return favor will be future campaigning support. Martinez could well be up for a Cabinet slot.

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