Connie Mack battles polls, voter lack of interest in quest to unseat Sen. Bill Nelson
DESTIN -- If Republican Connie Mack IV is shouldering the burden of his party’s control of the U.S. Senate, you wouldn’t know it last week as he finished a six-day bus tour of 17 cities in north and central Florida.
In 26 stops, Mack drew modest crowds and meager media attention as he crisscrossed the state. The steady drip of negative poll numbers had him battling expectations as much as barbs from his challenger, incumbent Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson. And with about four weeks before early voting begins, the general public still seems ambivalent.
In the Republican stronghold of Destin on Thursday, Mack greeted about 25 supporters outside the Donut Hole café on Highway 98, and then went inside to introduce himself to customers.
“Could you get us menus?’’ one elderly couple asked Mack, 45, the four-term congressman from Fort Myers, after he shook their hands. The congressman obliged.
None of it has cracked Mack’s cool.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is spending $2 million on ads this week, Mack said. American Crossroads, a super PAC founded by Republican political strategist Karl Rove, announced it’s spending $1.8 million in Florida on a television ad hitting Nelson’s record on Medicare.
Time is running out, however, with Washington pundits losing interest in what they once viewed as a competitive race. Jennifer Duffy, who tracks U.S. Senate races for the Cook Political Report, wrote in the National Journal last week that the chances of Republicans taking Senate seats from Democrats in Missouri, Ohio and Florida are “remote, at best.”
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