The two men vying for the Republican nomination for governor in Florida, Rick Scott and Bill McCollum, took their nasty campaign face-to-face in a televised debate last night. According to reports out of Florida, the debate was predictably brutal, with McCollum — on the ropes after Scott’s TV ad onslaught — attempting to tear down the frontrunner. For his part, Scott continued to rip at McCollum’s past, offering the same kind of rhetoric that has served him so well in his nearly $30 million ad campaign.
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