Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Yost Is Toast

Yesterday Florida held its primary elections. In the Primary election, Mike Yost, who thinks he should be representing Florida's Third Congressional District, won the Republican primary with 8,758 votes (or 45.8% of total). The Democratic incumbent, Corrine Brown won the Democratic primary with 34,292 votes (or 80% of total) over her opposition candidate. Even though Mr. Yost won here, sadly I think he should realize that he is toast.

The results indicate that Corrine Brown should easily win the general election in November. She received more votes than the total number votes cast for all Republican candidates plus her lone Democratic opponent, 34,292 versus 27,720 or 55% versus 45%.

Based on my research in the district, the swing vote is with those in the inner city, an area Mr. Yost seems afraid to tread. Case in point, just look at Mike's website. Even looking closely, it is very hard to find pictures of the faces of people that make up the core of the district. Additionally, he does little to address the specific core issues in the district, such as extremely high unemployment (3x the figure he uses), crime, broken families, etc., which may be a sign of the 'anti-incumbent' times. As I walked and talked in the pre-primary explorations I found that these local concerns are the issues that resonate in the swing voters. I say the following sadly for Mr. Yost (because he has worked hard), I believe he will end up like all the other Corrine Brown opponents, a Loser with a capital L.