Brandon Larrabee of the News Service of Florida: Months after its date became an issue and 10 days after it turned the state into the center of the political world, Florida’s presidential primary comes to a head today as voters go to the polls. And Republican leaders are saying that the contest could ultimately decide [...]
U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney announced today that he’s running for reelection in a newly drawn seat on Florida’s west coast — potentially leaving a GOP leaning seat in Palm Beach County -Treasure Coast open for U.S. Rep. Allen West, who has been in the national media extensivelyover the last 48 hours as rumors of a conspiracy to draw [...]
“Republican leaders in Florida, determined to give the state a big say in picking the nominee, decided having their delegation slashed from 99 to 50 was worth it and set Florida’s primary for Jan. 31. The RNC has said Florida will be a winner-take-all primary, but that decision is still subject to challenge,” the Tampa Bay [...]
A federal court has ruled against two Florida members of Congress in upholding the state’s new cosntitutional redistricting protocols for congressional seats. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has rejected claims by U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Republican, and Corrine Brown, a Democrat, who challenged them.
The Gingrich campaign is making robo-calls in Florida over Mitt Romney’s decision to veto $600,000 in funding to provide kosher meals for poor, elderly folks in senior homes. The robo-call ratchets up yesterday’s attacks over the veto by throwing in that Holocaust survivors were among those elderly “ who for the first time were forced [...]
Mitt Romney said on Tuesday that he will continue negative campaigning into the general election, telling reporters in Tampa that he will “fight and fight back hard” when attacked by other candidates, reports the Huffington Post. “I understand, of course, that it would be wonderful if campaigns were all nothing but positive, but that’s certainly [...]
Charlie Crist — who left the Republican Party during his unsuccessful 2010 U.S. Senate bid — told Chuck Todd that he’d consider voting for President Obama in November. Said Crist: “Consider? Sure, I would consider that. I really think he’s sincere and genuine. I think we have a lot time, a lot of issues to talk about, [...]
Day-of voting in the GOP presidential primary had only been underway for about two-and-a-half hours Tuesday when Secretary of State Kurt Browning took to the podium at a Tallahassee press conference, but Browning said everything was going well. The only hiccup reported early was a polling location in Orlando that had to open in the parking lot [...]
With lawmakers split along party lines, the House Civil Justice Subcommittee on Tuesday approved bills aimed at blocking abortions after 20 weeks and curbing abortions that might be related to the race or gender of fetuses, reports the News Service of Florida. The Republican-controlled panel voted 8-5 to approve HB 839, which would ban abortions [...]
Mitt Romney continues to lead the Florida Republican presidential primary. Romney leads with 43%, followed by Newt Gingrich with 31%, Rick Santorum with 13%, and Ron Paul with 9%, according to the final ARG survey of Florida. In a similar survey conducted January 27-28, 2012, Romney was at 43% and Gingrich was at 32%. A [...]
