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Mr Crist has been a pretty good governor, and he is hardly the lefty squish Mr Rubio makes him out to be.

Crist praised those involved in relief efforts after Friday's early-morning storm. "There are heroes all over Central Florida, " he said.

Charlie Crist, Florida's governor, was set to leave the Republican Party and run for the Senate as an independent.

No wonder Mr Crist likes the idea of a national catastrophe fund, which would spread the risk across the country.

Unlike some of his rivals (Mr Giuliani embraced the plan; Mr Romney fudged), Mr McCain told Mr Crist to get stuffed.

Messrs Crist and Rubio accuse one another of charging personal items to the Republican Party.

As Mr Crist's support drained away, he announced in April that he was leaving the party and running as an independent.

Mr Crist, a breezy charmer with pearly teeth and a preternatural tan, remains popular as governor.

By splitting the right, Mr Crist's defection in Florida could well deliver the state to a Democrat in November.

Now Mr Rubio has become the overall favourite, ahead both of Mr Crist and of Kendrick Meek, the Democratic nominee.

Florida's moderate Republican governor, Charlie Crist, announced his intention to run for the Senate in 2010.

In Florida, Republican candidate Charlie Crist is projected to win over the Democrat, Jim Davis.

CHARLIE CRIST, Florida's governor, first tried to make a gambling pact with the Seminole tribe in late 2007.

Charlie Crist of Florida and Arnold Schwarzenegger of California both withdrew their support for drilling this week.

In Florida Charlie Crist, the state's moderate governor, is desperately seeking a Senate seat despite a tea-party assault.

Charlie Crist was a big advocate of the tax cut, even appearing on billboards stating vote yes on the tax cut.

these people had paid their debt in full, and to restore their rights was simply the right and just thing to do.

This has satisfied Mr Bush's successor, Charlie Crist, who has now started signing death warrants.

In contrast, Messrs Meek and Crist, he says, are defenders of the status quo.

In the end, Rubio even outpolled Crist among Florida's large cache of independent voters, who make up a fifth of the electorate, 48% to 37%.

Both Mr Crist and Mr Meek insist that they are the ones who can defeat Mr Rubio.

Mr Crist is hardly a RINO (a Republican In Name Only, in conservative lingo).

But Mr Crist's staff claim that his standing as governor will counter this effect.

After Mr Crist's intervention in January, matters have only got worse.

A Quinnipiac poll this week showed Mr. Meek backed by 15% of respondents, while 42% supported Mr. Rubio and 35% backed Mr. Crist.

Mr Crist is running for the seat himself.

The winner will face Republican candidate Marco Rubio and current Governor Charlie Crist, who is running as an independent.

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Mr Crist hopes the deal will open the way for a much larger $12 billion federal plan for restoring the Everglades.

"It's a chance to strike back at the critical brotherhood and give each his comeuppance for evaluative sins of the past" (Judith Crist)