The Count Of Charlie Crist, Oh! Part 10

The Hoffman Effect rolls on unabated.  Latest Rasmussen poll has Marco Rubio up by 12, margin of error is +/- 5%, 49-37%.

Rasmussen's analysis points directly to the likely cause of Crist's problems: "Crist's fortunes appear to be tied in part to national unhappiness over President Obama and his policies. Many conservatives began rebelling against Crist when he became one of the few Republican governors to embrace Obama's $787-billion economic stimulus plan last year. The national Republican party establishment endorsed Crist early on, but a number of prominent national party conservatives have since announced their support for Rubio."

Odds are good in other words that Rubio is over 50%.  Remember, at one point Crist has a forty-point lead.  but the more disturbing problem is that the stimulus is killing Crist in the polls.  There's not a GOP Governor or state legislature that successfully turned that money away.  Many Republicans went to ribbon-cutting ceremonies to trumpet stimulus projects. Without that money there would be two million more unemployed.  But Crist is getting mauled because of it.

Do the Teabaggers know what's coming?  Do they know guys like Rubio are going to gut services and say "See, government doesn't work, let's make more service cuts!"

But then again, we have eight years of Bush as empirical proof of that.