Public Policy Polling: In the Florida Senate primary Connie Mack IV is stronger now than he was before he decided not to run before he decided to run. In late March Mack was polling at 28% in a Republican primary. Now we find him leading the way with 40% to 12% for George LeMieux, 4% [...]

I’ve heard it’s difficult to download images of the finalists’ vision for the new St. Petersburg Pier, so here are the pictures of the three ideas: and and

Another Occupy Wall Street tactic that’s spreading: the bat signal. From the Portland Mercury: Thanks to a tip, I took the elevator to the eighth floor of the parking garage directly across the street from the building and found three guys, a minivan, and the signal itself: A digital projector attached to a laptop, all powered [...]

What a surprise: Florida Trend, which is owned by the St. Petersburg Times, doesn’t have a negative thing to say about the newspaper’s upcoming name change. Read the Florida Trend story here. – At least I’ll be able to ask St. Petersburg Times CEO Paul Tash about the name change at Tiger Bay’s annual event on [...]

Gov. Rick Scott will release his 2012-13 budget recommendations Dec. 7, as lawmakers get ready to grapple with a shortfall of up to $2 billion — and state programs brace for another round of spending cuts, reports the News Service of Florida. Scott’s office confirmed the date Wednesday, though it was not immediately clear whether [...]

Despite FIVE different women accusing him of inappropriate behavior, Herman Cain might not drop out of the residential race. First Read: “What does Cain have to gain by getting out of the GOP presidential race? A future political career? A vice-presidential nomination? You could make the case that by staying in the race – and [...]

The following is a guest post from Julie Delegal of folioweekly.com.  They say that payback is hell, but when you’re a Florida Republican who ostensibly does what he’s asked, payback does pay off — this time in the form of redrawn Senate district boundary lines. Just ask Aaron Bean. The 44-year-old Nassau County resident has been [...]

Although Herman Cain told his senior staff [yesterday] morning that he was ‘reassessing’ his campaign’s livelihood in light of an accusation by an Atlanta woman of a 13-year extra-marital affair, Cain’s campaign manager, Mark Block, said in an interview [last night] that there is ‘no way he’s dropping out,’” ABC News reports. “Block said the [...]

Newt Gingrich is the current favorite in Florida’s Jan. 31 Republican presidential primary, picking up supporters who fled Herman Cain to claim 41 percent in a poll conducted Tuesday night for the Florida Times-Union, reports Matt Dixon. Gingrich has as much support as the next four candidates combined in the telephone survey of 513 registered [...]

Robert Draper profiles Mitt Romney on the cover of Sunday’s N.Y. Times Magazine: “Why Mitt Romney Is Not Falling Down … Building a Better Mitt-Bot”: “Romney’s campaign has decided upon a rather novel approach to winning the presidency. It has taken a smart and highly qualified but largely colorless candidate and made him exquisitely one-dimensional: [...]