Screven Watson thinks it’s okay that the Dems don’t have anybody in the race save Nan Rich just yet. “The Democrats at some point are going to want to know, who cares enough to be their nominee? If Bill’s playing footsies with it, and Alex is playing footsies with it, and Charlie’s playing footsies with it, at some point, the Democrats are going to want somebody to stand up and say, ‘Look. I want this thing, and I’m ready to take on this governor.’”
Still, with an incumbent governor whose poll ratings haven’t escaped the 30s for a couple of years, the reluctance to engage is interesting.
For strategist Anna Cruz, it ‘s very simply about the fate of the Democratic Party in Florida. “If we don’t win in 2014, we can hang it up.”