For those who haven't been watching too closely, the repub primary for the open Florida Senate seat just got more interesting.
First, Repub Governor Charlie Crist anounced his candidacy for the open senate seat. Crist is not liked by a block of the Florida conservative base because of his endorsement of Obama's stimulus plan. Crist even had a press conference with Obama in support of the stimulus.
Second, very conservative candidate Marco Rubio anounced he would also run for the seat. This pitts a moderate conservative versus a die-hard conservative. Just what the GOP doesn't want. (Why? Because moderate repubs have left the party in droves leaving only die-hards behind to vote in the primaries.)
Third, just this week Mike Huckabee and uber popular former gov Jeb Bush endorsed Rubio over Crist. Why is this importat? Well, Huckabee has national conservative street cred because of his presidential run and Jeb was hugely popular before he was ousted by term limits.
With these two biggies in Rubio's corner, they can turn out repub voters in droves to get the more conservative elected during the primary. This is good for dems because the overly conservatives have not been getting elected in moderate states.
