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To dip into his pocket to defend himself against that and other charges last week in a deposition he took the fifth over two dozen times. mccollum inside a primary you tend to be more strained than in a general election. mccollum pulled his punches on tough things like that. even if he hadn't he didn't have that much money to lay that message out there. >> greta: mccollum had the endorsement of governor jeb bush. and if you look not just for florida in terms of the republican party towards 2012, they would certainly prefer to have a republican governor in florida rather than a democrat now the...

Mccollum who didn't have the money was not up. in that county scott took 62% of the vote to 32% of the vote for mccollum. so, money at the end of the day the idea being able to get a message out we was a successful businessperson and would use his business skills to make florida's economy grow and keep florida from following the path of washington was powerful enough particularly when you have a 2 1/2-1 spending advantage over your opponent. >> greta: i would imagine the democrats would much rather run against scott than mccollum. when scott was ceo for colombia hospital corporation the compan...

Mccollum who didn't have the money was not up. in that county scott took 62% of the vote to 32% of the vote for mccollum. so, money at the end of the day the idea being able to get a message out we was a successful businessperson and would use his business skills to make florida's economy grow and keep florida from following the path of washington was powerful enough particularly when you have a 2 1/2-1 spending advantage over your opponent. >> greta: i would imagine the democrats would much rather run against scott than mccollum. when scott was ceo for colombia hospital corporation the compan...

To dip into his pocket to defend himself against that and other charges last week in a deposition he took the fifth over two dozen times. mccollum inside a primary you tend to be more strained than in a general election. mccollum pulled his punches on tough things like that. even if he hadn't he didn't have that much money to lay that message out there. >> greta: mccollum had the endorsement of governor jeb bush. and if you look not just for florida in terms of the republican party towards 2012, they would certainly prefer to have a republican governor in florida rather than a democrat now the...

>> greta: karl rove is back. 24 house plus since the polls closed in primaries. in florida bill mccollum lost to mr. scott. a lot of people were stunned. why did mccollum lose? he was a well-known candidate in the state. >> you -- i think a big part is money. scott had a personal fortune to draw on he spent somewhere north of 50 million dollars. mccollum and his allies spent 20 million dollars. i was looking at florida numbers mccollum and scott were both up in pensacola, at the far western edge of the panhandle on television. in that county, mccollum won 45% to scott's 44%, slight slightly ea...