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It looks like pot could tip the balance in favor of the Dem in Fla. Didn't see this one coming.
“Any politician who thinks they can alienate over two-thirds of the voting public and win, is kidding themselves,” Stephani Scruggs Bowen told me. She’s the wife of Michael Bowen, who uses medical marijuana to treat his epilepsy and was one of the plaintiffs who sued to overturn the legislature’s ban on smokable marijuana..."
"That’s a calculation that is playing out in a handful of tight Senate races this year, where an issue that has 68 percent support nationally offers a way for cautious moderates in red states...to shore up support from the liberal wing of their party."
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/11/legal-marijuana-senate-midterms-2018-218964
“Any politician who thinks they can alienate over two-thirds of the voting public and win, is kidding themselves,” Stephani Scruggs Bowen told me. She’s the wife of Michael Bowen, who uses medical marijuana to treat his epilepsy and was one of the plaintiffs who sued to overturn the legislature’s ban on smokable marijuana..."
"That’s a calculation that is playing out in a handful of tight Senate races this year, where an issue that has 68 percent support nationally offers a way for cautious moderates in red states...to shore up support from the liberal wing of their party."
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/11/legal-marijuana-senate-midterms-2018-218964