Election Day: What If Jacksonville Suddenly Woke Up?

[Timkin]

I am actually for the first time in 10 years , thinking about relocating   .

Saddest thing I have heard all day. Don't go? Who will tell me I am being insensitive to tearing down buildings?

  Mtrain  you never change do you

[Old Jim]

Is the Republican Party in Jacksonville damaged by this outcome, or will it rally and not be fragmented like it appears to be now? There was a lot of money and influence in different camps and there seems to be some bruised egos.

[stjr]

I have talked with some prominent Republican backers of both Moran and Mullaney today.  Not one said they planned to back Hogan.  That's how disgusted they are with his positions it appears.  If they support Alvin Brown, it may not get him elected, but it will say a lot about how repulsive Hogan's campaign is to people in his own party.  Kind of like Rick Scott's.  Imagine, if you can't unify your own party, how will you unify and lead the entire City?

[Timkin]

good point

[mtraininjax]

I have talked with some prominent Republican backers of both Moran and Mullaney today.  Not one said they planned to back Hogan.  That's how disgusted they are with his positions it appears.  If they support Alvin Brown, it may not get him elected, but it will say a lot about how repulsive Hogan's campaign is to people in his own party.  Kind of like Rick Scott's.  Imagine, if you can't unify your own party, how will you unify and lead the entire City?

Yeah, sure, just like what happened when McCollum lost the primary to Scott, all the republicans for the Attorney General poo-poo'd Scott, hemmed, hawed, but when it came to brass tacks, they all got on board and fought the party line and beat up on Sink along party lines. Had they not, Sink would have easily won.

Lots of time between now and May 17. I did not even know who I was voting for until the Friday before the election, so a poll today is as valuable as the Straw Poll taken at the Hyatt that one fateful night earlier this year.