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Quite a catch by Politico’s Marc Caputo, who notes well that this was a survey of Florida Democratic voters. Its fairly widely reported top line findings were that shameless political chameleon Charlie Crist — who’s run for statewide office as a Republican, Independent and Democrat — leads the pack in his (latest) party’s gubernatorial primary. Crist is ahead of Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner and conspiratorial demagogue Nikki Fried by ten points, but both of them are losing handily to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who boasts a daunting war chest heading toward the general election: As you can see, DeSantis has an advantage of nine to 13 points over his potential challengers, which would certainly qualify as battleground state blowout territory. Other polling has also pointed to a major DeSantis lead. But what Caputo noticed was the lack of attention being paid to another result in this poll of Sunshine State Democrats: Florida Democrats, along with much of the media, bought into activists’ ‘Don’t Say Gay’ framing of this legislation, which has led to all sorts of protests and heated rhetoric. I’ve explained my concerns with the bill in a careful and non-hysterical way , but other opponents have acted as if the bill bans the word ‘gay’ in Florida schools (ludicrously false), and have foolishly attacked one of the key components of the policy: Barring classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for five-to-eight-year-olds in grades K-3. This provision, I argued, is not objectionable and would be widely popular with parents and voters overall. Activists pressed ahead with their histrionics anyway, and the results haven’t worked out well for them. Some of the legitimate critiques of the legislation have been largely ignored, while the K-3 component has — surprise — proven popular.
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