The best news is that Greene lost has lost his bid to buy the Democratic nomination for the US Senate. We don’t have to put up with a flood of Jeff Greene ads until November.

This is good news for the hardest working guy in the Florida progressive blogtopia™, Kenneth Quinnell, who has been dealing with Kendrick Meek’s ‘Net effort. His first big campaign is a winner.

For what it’s worth, most people seem to agree that the game changer was when Meek got help from a very popular Democrat, the Big Dog. Bill Clinton can make people feel good, and he knows how to work a crowd.

Update: You can’t buy a Democratic nomination, but the GOP is not that picky. Rick Scott has been chosen by the RPOF to be their candidate for governor.

So, the governor’s race with be: Alex Sink [D], Rick Scott [R], and “Bud” Chiles [I].

The Senate race will be: Kendrick Meek [D], Marco Rubio [R], and Charlie Crist [I].

Update 2: Tea Party = loser in Florida. No tea partiers have won anything in the primaries.

Position: 18.2N 49.8W [10 PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [295°] near 18 mph [30 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 75 mph [120 kph].
Wind Gusts: 85 mph [135 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 140 miles [220 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 30 miles [ 45 km].
Minimum central pressure: 990 mb ↓.

Currently about 795 miles [1275 km] East of the Lesser Antilles.

The storm apparently sucked in some dry air this morning, slipped back to tropical storm status, and is now re-strengthening.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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