Mitch Perry has a story in Creative Loafing this morning about the opposition growing in response to a proposal to create a 24-mile light-rail system linking the central part of downtown St. Petersburg with Clearwater — which voters would weigh in on via a possible sales tax referendum next year to pay for the system. Before [...]
A new Pew Research poll finds that since the 2010 midterm elections, the Tea Party “has not only lost support nationwide, but also in the congressional districts represented by members of the House Tea Party Caucus.” Key findings: “More Americans say they disagree (27%) than agree (20%) with the Tea Party movement. A year ago, in the [...]
“Representatives for leading social conservative groups in Iowa held a secret meeting Monday as part of an effort with one main goal: find and support a Republican presidential candidate who can stop Mitt Romney in Iowa,”CNN reports. “The idea: avoid splintering the conservative vote in the state by rallying around one GOP rival who could win [...]
An analysis of Gingrich’s support: The surveys have been consistent about the kinds of voters gravitating to Gingrich. His support “skews way old,” as Gallup’s Frank Newport puts it, and is greater among self-described conservatives and Tea Party supporters. Both the Gallup and Quinnipiac polls show Gingrich with roughly twice as much support among conservative Republicans as [...]
Weekly Standard: “It’s becoming increasingly hard to say whether Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, the two leading Republican presidential candidates, would fare better against Barack Obama.” “Each of these two leading GOP candidates certainly has his strengths in an electoral vein. Romney consistently fares better than Gingrich among independents — the block of voters who [...]
At this point, I blame Neil Brickfield. Since the moment Neil Brickfield was elected to the Pinellas County Commission, he has aspired to be the unofficial Boss of Pinellas County politics. Having served as a paid or unpaid political consultant/adviser to several municipal candidates, such as Tarpon Springs’Mayor David Archie, Clearwater City Commissioner Bill Jonson [...]
Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff told David Gregory (via Taegan Goddard) that Newt Gingrich’s $1.6 million consulting contract with Freddie Mac to provide “strategic advice” is an example of the corruption that’s taken over Washington politics. Said Abramoff: “People who come to Washington who have public service, and they cash in on it. And they use their public [...]
A Bloomberg News poll “of likely caucus participants shows Cain at 20 percent, Paul at 19 percent, Romney at 18 percent and Gingrich at 17 percent in a contest that remains wide open. The poll reflects the race’s fluidity, with 60 percent of likely caucus-goers saying they still could be persuaded to pick someone other [...]
AARP today released survey results showing that by margins of more than two to one, likely Republican voters in Florida oppose cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits to reduce the deficit. AARP‘s survey highlights the major disconnect between the Washington establishment and Republican voters in Florida who will be critical in determining the next Republican [...]
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Santorum gets standing ovation at Daytona tea party convention Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum got a front-runner’s reception when he arrived Sunday at the Tea Party Florida Convention. A crowd of more than 300 conservative voters gave a standing ovation to the only presidential candidate to make a visit on the final [...]
