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Posted at 2:10pm on Mar. 17, 2008 A Tough Decision For FL-22 GOP Primary Voters

The case for picking the candidate that makes strategic sense in both the long and short term.

By Martin A. Knight

The 22nd Congressional District of the state of Florida is currently represented by a freshman Democrat, Ron Klein, the former Minority Leader of the Florida Senate, who defeated Republican Clay Shaw in 2006, a very senior 26 year veteran of the House.

This is still a marginal district, a purple seat with neither red nor blue having a distinct advantage, even with the benefit of incumbency that Ron Klein currently holds.

And it is one of those seats we need to start winning before we can have a hope of regaining a majority any time within the near future. 2006 saw the GOP lose probably around 90% of every toss-up race in the country, and to make matters more ... difficult, we just lost our former Speaker's nominally Republican seat thanks to our side's nomination of someone who, by all accounts, was a terrible candidate.

Like Dan would say, it's people ultimately that run for public office, not disembodied ideas, ideologies or Parties.

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