Now this is interesting, although it’s not entirely clear to me what the implications are or will be. According to an upcoming survey from Public Policy Polling, a majority of those planning to vote for Gov. Charlie Crist for U.S. Senate in Florida think that if he wins election he should caucus with the Democrats.
My first reaction to that number was that it puts Crist in quite a bind if he wins. But that may be getting ahead of ourselves because what this finding is actually showing is more evidence that Crist has become the de facto Democratic nominee since he left the Republican Party to run as an independent. So yes, at some point down the road, Crist may have some tricky decisions to make if he wins. But the more immediate effect is on the eventual Democratic nominee — whether it be Kendrick Meek or Jeff Greene — who are clearly losing Democrats to Crist in a big way.
