Before polls open Tuesday, FL early vote hits 534,000 (44% more than NH, Iowa...
More than half a million Florida Republicans (534,476) have voted at early-vote precincts and by absentee ballots. The polls officially open Jan. 31. How many more will show up? Up to 2 million. If...
View ArticleRomney stumps in Pompano Beach late Sunday night
Republican front-runner MItt Romney spoke to a packed house in Pompano Beach, with more than 400 people inside and about 150 outside because the room was over capacity. It had all the trappings of a...
View ArticleDaily Digest for Monday, Jan. 30
Daily Digest for 1/30 [Listen or Download] [iTunes link] Four Stories To Think About Today * Expect colorful artwork and the pitter patter of tiny shoes around the Capitol; it's the start of...
View ArticleQ Poll: Romney by 14 in Florida. That's right: 14
Press release: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a 43 – 29 percent lead over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich among Republican likely voters in Florida, the nation’s first big-state...
View ArticleAnd more polls with Romney leads. PPP: Romney +7; InsiderAdvantage: Romney +5
Polls are like the weather these days in Florida. Don't like 'em? Sit around. They'll change. Right now, they have one thing in common: Mitt Romney's winning. It's the margin that's in dispute. From...
View ArticleHerald poll: Voters want statewide referendum on casinos
Florida voters aren’t sure if they want Las Vegas-style casinos in the state, but they are certain they don’t want Tallahassee to make the decision, according to a new poll by The Miami Herald and...
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Updated Pre-Election Day total: nearly 603,000 early votes cast by FL GOP...
Before the polls officially open statewide on Election Day, 603,000 Republicans have already cast ballots either by mail or at early-voting precincts, according to Republican Party of Florida spokesman...
View ArticleRomney continues attacks on Gingrich in Jacksonville on eve of Florida primary
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, kept up his aggressive rhetorical attack against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Monday, the last full day of campaigning before Florida’s Republican...
View ArticleMiami-Dade schools chief Alberto Carvalho says he was offered D.C. job but...
Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, speaking on Spanish-language radio Monday morning, said he turned down a job offer from U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Carvalho did not say...
View ArticleSouth Beach's club crowd stumbles into politics at "Morning Joe" broadcast.
I headed off to Jerry's Famous Deli in South Beach this morning to catch the live "Morning Joe" broadcast. There have been long lines to these things when the popular MSNBC politics show set up shop at...
View ArticleAsh Williams names his new inspector general
Well, it's two or three months later than Jeff Atwater would have liked, but pension chief Ash Williams has fulfilled the CFO's fervent request that he hire an inspector general. Williams, State Board...
View ArticleCraig Miller leaves FL GOP Senate race, runs for Congress
From a press release: Ormond Beach- The Craig Miller for U.S. Senate Campaign announced today that he has suspended his campaign for the U.S. Senate to focus on representing the new Coastal District,...
View ArticleThough down in GOP polls, Gingrich wins tea-party straw poll
Daily Caller: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich won a straw poll of Florida Tea Party Patriots members held on a conference call Sunday evening, with former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum a...
View ArticleDebbie Wasserman Schultz asks Reince Priebus to take back his "abandoning...
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and head of the Democratic National Committee, called on her counterpart over at the Republican National Committee to apologize for likening President Barack...
View ArticleThink tank: 1 of 3 Hispanic voters in Florida are registered GOP
The liberal-leaning think tank, Center for American Progress, released this list of data about Florida's Hispanic vote as the nation watches that crucial constituency on the eve of the state's...
View ArticleDoral mayor bows out of Miami-Dade race
The Miami-Dade mayor's race has lost a contender. Doral Mayor Juan Carlos Bermudez, who declared his candidacy on Jan. 31, 2011, posted a statement on his Facebook page Monday telling supporters that...
View ArticleNobody is safe from House initiation rites
When it comes to rites of passage, not even legislative aides are off limits. With newly minted Rep. Jose Oliva stuck in traffic on I-75 Monday, assistant Chris Cantens was called upon to present HB...
View ArticleWeatherford to West: Legislative maps are not targeting you
As the House prepares to finish up the congressional redistricting maps later this week, Rep. Will Weatherford stepped in to quash a rumor that's been festering in GOP circles for the past month. The...
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott will vote Tuesday -- in Tallahassee
When Gov. Rick Scott casts his ballot in Tuesday's Republican presidential preference primary, he'll do it in Tallahassee for the first time -- and he'll be the first governor to do that in the capital...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich, before enthusiastic but not huge Tampa crowd, asks supporters...
Newt Gingrich -– who is traveling around Florida by plane and was preceded on the stage by Michael Reagan and Herman Cain -- addressed a small but enthusiastic crowd at an airplane hangar at Tampa Jet...
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