FL-Gov: Sink-Scott

Update 5: There is no joy is RFF-ville. Mighty Alex has struck out.

Update 4: With 99 percent in this morning, it's still too close to call, but we are down about 50,000 votes. That sounds a little outside the mandatory recount box. But we will probably have to wait 10 days for all provisional and overseas votes. The provisionals typically trend D, the military R. I wouldn't get out hopes up too high.

Update 3: We really need to see some good figures from Palm Beach. That is Democratic territory, so there is hope. But other than that, this race is done. Guard the tax coffers. Rick Scott is packing for the governor's mansion.

Update 2: Well, this appears now to be our only hope. Most of the vote is in statewide, and with the arrival of votes from Hillsborough and Miami-Dade, the election is now within 4 points. That said, Scott has led the entire night. If he wins, I will have a lot to blog about tomorrow, if I have the heart. But right now, neither candidate is above 50.

Update: Right now, Rick Scott is ahead by about 100,000 votes. About 29 percent of the vote is in.

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This one is keeping me up at night. The polls show this one is neck and neck, making me question my faith in the voters of Florida. Alex Sink is a good candidate, probably the best we've put up for governor in 16 years. She won't say that because her husband ran eight years ago, but she is a much better candidate than he was.

Rick Scott, meanwhile, is about the worst candidate I have seen in a major race ever during all my years watching Florida politics. The only thing he has in his favor is money, and he got so much of that through ill-gotten means that I can't imagine any halfway-educated voter wanting to give this guy the keys to the governor's mansion.

I hope Sink breaks away today and wins this by a significant margin. But we will see.