The bad news keeps coming for Florida Senate President and U.S. Senate candidate Mike Haridopolos. Yesterday, we learned his two top-level staffers were leaving his campaign. Now we get word he lost the Space Coast Tea Party straw poll.
The big winner: Adam Hasner, who's getting that tea-party buzz.
Straw polls by themselves are no biggie. But this is the backyard for the Merritt Island Republican. And straw polls they mean something. Just ask Charlie Crist when now-Sen. Marco Rubio parlayed straw-poll wins and tea-party appearances into what seemed like an improbable win in 2010.
The results:
Who would you MOST like to be Florida’s U.S. Senator in 2012?
Adam Hasner – 36 votes
Mike McCalister – 24 votes
George LeMieux – 12 votes
Mike Haridopolos – 5 votes
Undecided – 13 votes
Who would you LEAST like to be U.S. Senator in 2012?
Mike Haridopolos – 62 votes
George LeMieux – 7 votes
Adam Hasner – 1 vote
Mike McCalister – 1 vote
Undecided – 1 votes Bill Nelson – 1 vote
The coming Haridopocalypse
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Posted by: Saint Petersblog | July 15, 2011 at 09:51 AM
Often folks one's own back yard neighbors are those who know best about you and what to expect from you.
Hairy-Dupe-All-Us has got a high negatives problem.
He looks good, but it's more important to be good.
His problem is not that he's not conservative; it is that he's ineffective ... at achieving conservative goals--for example, last legislative session he resisted what we really need, which are large property tax cuts in favor of higher than necessary government spending.
Add to that, he expects to ride into federal office on a flood of special interest money ... more politicians like that, most agree we don't need in D.C.
Posted by: whasup | July 15, 2011 at 12:32 PM
he also stabbed us in the back over E-varify, all the while telling us he was for it, but rigging the committees so that it would fail. Slime like him we do not need.
Posted by: dasaardvark | July 16, 2011 at 04:05 PM
Just some truth:I was in Tallahassee for both events in supropt of Governor Scott. There were more folks at the first event, but cxertainly NOT thousands . Also, there were certainly more than 45 folks at the second event. Guess the Sunshine State News writer was not there and does not know Michael Warns and his wonderful band. Michael goes where he wants to go and was not paid to be in Tallahassee. One who trusts Liberal/Socialist comments about Donald Trump most likely are not getting the truth. It is best to look up Mr. Trump's audio quotes for yourself.
Posted by: Crystal | April 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM