The Tallahassee Democrat has an article today showing Democrat Party’s Chairman Rod Smith attempting to hype the crowd in the Tallahassee area.
What Rod Smith is in actuality saying is that the Democrats have no ideas with which to persuade the electorate so they will take the campaign into the gutter to demonize Republicans.
It won’t work.
Republican leaders scoffed at Smith’s partisan predictions. Leon County State Committeewoman Cynthia Henderson said the mayoral elections were swayed by local issues and politics in Tampa and Jacksonville and GOP Committeeman Jeff Howell called Smith’s prediction “absurd.”
“I don’t think the governor’s popularity now is going to have an impact on what’s going on at the time of the election,” said Henderson.
Howell said “Rod Smith is doing his job” in firing up his supporters. But he said Scott’s image will not help Obama and Nelson or hurt the GOP nominees.
“Obama won Florida by only 2 percent four years ago,” he said. “Floridians are concerned about the economy, unemployment and the ballooning federal deficit, and they don’t hold Rick Scott responsible for that.”
Leon County GOP Chairman Bradley Maxwell said Smith was trying to divert attention from Obama’s record by appealing to anger at Scott. He said the Democrats can’t win by saying “Obama might be bad, but look at this other guy.”
