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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, November 06, 2006

Who organized Bush's Florida trip today?

As the polls tighten for Crist,
Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist decided Sunday to skip an appearance with President Bush in favor of crisscrossing the state in the final hours before Election Day.

But, funny thing, in this morning's NYTimes,
The White House, however, said this week that the president was heading to Florida specifically to help Mr. Crist, who, according to Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, invited Mr. Bush in the first place.

And, then to top it all off,
Meanwhile, (Katherine) Harris, the Republican candidate, says she has been invited to be onstage today with President Bush in Pensacola. The last time Bush visited Florida, she was shunted aside.

So, the President is spending the last campaign day in Florida at a rally for a governor who isn't going to show up, AND with the highly unpopular Katherine Harris, who he has pointedly not invited to other Florida appearances?

Bush's other appearance today is with Asa Hutchinson, the Arkansas gubernatorial candidate who is "way behind in the polls."

That smells of victory, doesn't it?

(Article links via Americablog and First Draft.)

2 Comments:

  • I'm counting on you for a good Harris/Bush photo op on election day.

    By Blogger Praguetwin, at 9:45 AM  

  • I'll try, but I think they're going to work very hard to keep this appearance image controlled.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:49 AM  

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