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Katherine Harris' Comedy of Errors
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 02, 2006 04:08pm |
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| Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
| News Date | Saturday, September 2, 2006 10:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The former Florida secretary of state looks to be headed for a Senate primary win. So why is her own party laughing?
By BARBARA LISTON
Posted Saturday, Sep. 02, 2006
Considering how much ridicule she endured from political opponents during and after the 2000 Florida presidential election recount debacle, it's almost astounding that Katherine Harris would willingly put herself in a position to be the butt of more jokes. But as a candidate in the absurd political circus that has been the Republican Senate primary race, that is just what the former Secretary of State and two-term congresswoman has done, and she now finds herself imploding on the eve of the primary election next Tuesday, painted as a bumbling, Starbucks-swilling, intolerant party pariah.
It is only thanks to her unknown and ineffective trio of opponents that Harris, 49, is nonetheless expected by many analysts and recent polls to win the primary — before undoubtedly losing the November election to incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. "It really has been a disastrous campaign of epic proportions," says Aubrey Jewett, political science professor of University of Central Florida in Orlando. "I don't think you've ever seen anyone fall from grace so fast in their own party."
How the normally disciplined Republican machine let their primary for such an important office turn into a laughing stock is grist for comedy shows and conspiracy theories alike. |
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