Charlie Crist is poised to leap into the great unknown.
Because if, as widely expected, he runs for the U.S. Senate as an unaffiliated, independent candidate, all the long-held political assumptions about America's biggest battleground state are out the window.
Is the path to victory once again the swing-voter swath in the I-4 corridor? Not necessarily.
Does a race pitting two Republicans against one Democrat help the Democrat in a state with more registered Democrats? Don't count on it.
Florida elections are decided in the middle, so wouldn't that bode well for Crist? No one knows.
“The fact that the Democrats don't have an overwhelming candidate and the fact that [Republican Marco] Rubio has run so far to the right as the Tea Party candidate, allows Charlie a window, albeit a small one,'' said Democratic consultant Bob Buckhorn of Tampa. “It's a very small window and it's an unprecedented strategy, but I don't see that he has any other way.''
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