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Friday, December 7th, 2012

Quotation
As I said at the convention, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, it left me. Whether the issue was immigration, or education, or your name it — the environment. I feel at home now.
— Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist, explaining why he decided to register as a Democratic voter. Crist ran as an independent for U.S. Senate in 2010 but lost to Republican Marco Rubio.

# Posted at 10:17 pm Pacific