Florida
Crist Hails Stimulus As “Right Thing To Do” While CPAC Star Rubio Builds Lead
Things could not have gone much worse than they did for Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign this week. Last week Marco Rubio, the Florida governor’s opponent in the Republican primary, delivers a knockout speech on the first day of CPAC, further burnishing his stellar conservative credentials and generating loads of excitement among the Tea Party base […]
Obama Kicks Off Post-SOTU Jobs Message In Florida
President Obama and Vice President Biden travel to Tampa, Florida on Thursday for a post-State of the Union town hall that will be the debut of a reframed White House agenda with jobs at its core.
Having said the word “jobs” almost 30 times on Wednesday night, there is little doubt that the president has received […]
Crist Clipped By Conservative Base In Sunshine Senate Race
Sitting Florida Governor and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Charlie Crist has potentially lost what was once expected to be an easy ride to the GOP nomination and eventually all the way to Washington, with a new poll showing the generally popular governor trailing a conservative rival in the primary race.
A new Quinnipiac poll […]
Playing Politics In The Sunshine State
Sarasota Herald Tribune
President Obama continued his campaign-style swing through Florida on Tuesday, following up a visit to the Jacksonville Naval Station on Monday with a stop outside of Sarasota to pledge federal support for solar power and “smart grids” for electricity.
The president announced his administration would spend over $3 billion to upgrade power systems […]
Retiring GOPer Mel Martinez Resigns Early, Pushed By Base?
Moderate Florida Republican Mel Martinez has resigned a Senate seat he was already planning to vacate at the end of his current term in 2010, citing his “priorities” of “faith, my family and my country” and saying “it’s time I return to Florida and my family”
Martinez had been taking heat from the GOP’s conservative base […]
Crist Launches
After second-hand word leaked out over the weekend that Florida Governor Charlie Crist would be running for the U.S.e senate, the official word from Crist himself is out today.
The soon-to-be ex-governor announces his decision to run and explains why he feels it’s necessary to ditch the Sunshine State in the middle of one of […]
Crist Will Announce 2010 Senate Bid
Popular Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist will announce on Tuesday that he will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Mel Martinez, thus ending the months of hot speculation about the political future of President Obama’s strongest ally among GOP state leaders and a rising star of the party’s shrinking semi-moderate […]
Battlegrounds 2008: State-by-State
Below you’ll find a look some of the hottest battlegrounds of tomorrow’s election. We look at the last reputable poll for each state, some info on what the candidates need to win, and a pick for the region of each state to keep an eye on as the returns come in.
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Colorado - 49-44 Obama, Mason-Dixon/Denver […]
Quinnipiac polls: Concrete battlegrounds
The last set of Quinnipiac battleground polls for the uber-swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania show virtually no legitimate movement among the numbers for McCain and Obama, with the Dem nominee remaining ahead by varying margins in all three states.
Florida: Obama at 47 percent to McCain’s 45 percent, unchanged from October 29;
Ohio: Obama up […]
Florida: Has early voting already decided the race?
The early voting phenomenon has swept across the battlegrounds, with swing states like Florida, Georgia and North Carolina seeing breathtakingly long lines and incredible wait times for their early voting periods that have just ended. The numbers are impressive in all of the states, but it’s in the Sunshine Stats where early voting may make […]
