get by and win with a smaller percentage turnout. let me ask you this. i ve had people ask me this question, being a floridians, and i don t have a good answer, maybe i don t have a politically correct answer. no one does. yeah, and that is how is it that both parties here it is one of the most competitive states, if not the most competitive state in the union, and yet the campaign benches of potential candidates seem to be as thin as ever on both sides of the aisle, that there s just a lot of wounded candidates, democrats and republicans. but, also, not too many rising stars. why is that? i think the republicans have a greater bench, because they ve been in power longer and they ve had an ability to have more politicians and more statewide offices. adam putnam, pam bondy, and a.g. means almost governor, but the party to capitalize on the voter registration edge has been certainly if you re a democrat pretty embarrassing. the best hope for governor, to win the governor s ra