8/31/2004
Early results
The Fla. Dept. of Elections site was down or unusable most of election night so look at this handy Herald.com chart instead. (Scroll way down.)
Castor stayed positive and won by an even larger margin than the polls suggested. Penelas was never a factor.
Martinez found there's nothing like good old-fashioned negative campaigning and gay-baiting to get the Republican base out in a primary and beat McCollum by a surprising margin. And Johnnie Byrd came in a remarkably dismal fourth. Newcomer Doug Gallagher got more than twice the votes of the former speaker of the House. I guess that proves it is possible to be too right-wing to win a Florida Republican primary. Who could have guessed?
In Sarasota, Jan Schneider is ahead with 48 percent of the vote for a rematch against Katherine Harris in Nov. And that dreadful Connie Mack 4.0 is way ahead in Dist. 4.
Castor stayed positive and won by an even larger margin than the polls suggested. Penelas was never a factor.
Martinez found there's nothing like good old-fashioned negative campaigning and gay-baiting to get the Republican base out in a primary and beat McCollum by a surprising margin. And Johnnie Byrd came in a remarkably dismal fourth. Newcomer Doug Gallagher got more than twice the votes of the former speaker of the House. I guess that proves it is possible to be too right-wing to win a Florida Republican primary. Who could have guessed?
In Sarasota, Jan Schneider is ahead with 48 percent of the vote for a rematch against Katherine Harris in Nov. And that dreadful Connie Mack 4.0 is way ahead in Dist. 4.
