Charlie Crist's campaign manager has quit—three weeks before the election. It's never a good sign when a campaign manager leaves a campaign while it's still in progress. The only thing worse than a campaign manager being fired is a campaign manager quitting. A campaign manager can be fired for a number of reasons: most often because the campaign is losing, but sometimes just because of internal dissent with other staffers, or ideological conflicts with the candidate. But if a campaign manager quits, it usually means they are fed up with something or someone inside the campaign—most likely the candidate! So three weeks before the election? Really a bad sign.

One of the inherent dilemmas of a democracy is that even if a politician is doing the best possible job ever, there will still be some jackass who wants his job anyway, and will say bad things about that politician in order to get people to vote him out of office.