Pelosi Behind Demings?

An otherwise unsurprising Politico article on how Nancy Pelosi thinks Mitt Romney will lose had an interesting nugget of information about a certain Central Florida race.

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Pelosi also touted female congressional candidates such as Tammy Duckworth, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs who is running for Congress in Illinois, and former Orlando police chief Val Demings, who is trying to unseat Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.).

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71531.html#ixzz1jjWEjhs6
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This makes me wonder if Pelosi knows more about Florida redistricting than the rest of us, but it is a pretty strong signal of which way she wants any primary in FL-08 to go. Consider this just another sign Alan Grayson's ambitions lie elsewhere, I guess.

Of course, Pelosi has a lot of reason to be excited about Demings' campaign. She seems to be out-raising Webster, and despite the spin from Webster included in that linked Orlando Sentinel article, an incumbent who can't out-raise a challenger in any scenario should lose sleep at night.

What will really decide this race? It is still tough to predict the political climate in November, but I have a growing feeling that things will tilt to the left come Election Day instead of the right. The only real question right now is whether the Legislature can draw Webster a district in which he cannot lose. Since he has long kept friends on both sides of the aisle in Tallahassee, that is possible, Fair Districts or not.

We shall see.