FLORIDA
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Then there's the other Florida billionaire, Rick Scott, who is running against Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum. Scott will forever be ingrained in my mind as the Mister-Clean-esque spokesman of the anti-Obama health care campaign put on by Conservatives for Patients' Rights. Don't get me wrong — it was a great campaign — but it was also quite notorious, given that Scott was the CEO of a hospital that has weathered charges of Medicare fraud to the tune of 1.7 billion. McCollum enjoys a 39-35 point lead in the latest polls, and was the presumptive nominee until Scott jumped in with $30 million of his own money. Whoever comes out on top will go up against presumptive Democratic nominee
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Let's certainly keep an eye out for the GOP competitors fighting to take on crazy Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.). At the top of the ticket is Bruce O'Donoghue, but there's six other competitors which could slice and dice this race into GOP oblivion. Then there's the 24th district, where Karen Diebel and Craig Miller are leading the field for the honor of challenging Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.). Both Grayson and Kosmas are highly vulnerable this cycle and sit in very evenly divided districts.
ARIZONA
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Let's not forget the GOP Senate primary in Arizona, where Sen. John McCain takes on challenger J.D. Hayworth. Hayworth was looking strong in the polls out of the gate, but has fallen behind towards the finish after McCain spent $21 million slamming Hayworth as a "huckster." That's more money than McCain has spent every single Senate campaign combined since he first won a Senate seat in 1986. He was of course aided by his friend Sarah Palin.
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