Polls showed Rubio trouncing Crist in the Republican primary, but recent polls give Crist a better chance to win the Senate seat running as an independent in November against Republican Rubio and Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek.

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The governor is now running for the Senate as an independent, against both Rubio and presumptive Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek.

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Kendrick Meek, who defeated Mr Greene, helped secure government handouts as a congressman for a developer who had hired his mother as a consultant.

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Oh, yeah, there is a Democrat running in this heavily Democrat-leaning state, and Rep. Kendrick Meek is feverishly trying to remind folks of that.

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