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Steve Schale: Notes on the first day of early voting in Florida

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Dear friends and casual Twitter followers: It is Florida election memo time! I know you all are excited. Fourteen days left. If Jaguars fans can survive the Gus Bradley era, America can do 14 days of this. Also of note: 18 days until FSU basketball tips off. So here are some notes on the first day of in-person early voting: Frankly, for fans of the home team, it’s all good news. Democrats entered the day down after about two weeks…

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Steve Schale: Dear Donald Trump press corps: Welcome to my house

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Dear Traveling Trump Press Corps: Well, the sputtering, crashing, and long-since derailed Trump Train is headed to my town, Tallahassee. I, for one, will admit it, I cannot believe how badly he and his shop are at campaigning. Take all of the personal flaws of Donald Trump aside; I really believed he would rise to the occasion of running a campaign at least somewhat worthy of the office he seeks. Back in 2008, when one of my staff would do…

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Steve Schale: I have ‘real issues’ with Q polling in Florida

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Just a couple of observations on this Quinnipiac University poll today. I continue to have real issues with the way that Q does its polling, particularly in Florida. But here’s easier argument why you should take ALL of their numbers in Florida with a grain of salt: they were wildly inaccurate throughout the 2012 cycle, and based on their first two polls: Hillary Clinton +8, and Donald Trump +3, one can reasonably assume they haven’t fixed whatever issues they had…

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Steve Schale: Unsolicited advice for Bernie Sanders

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One of the hardest things for a campaign, particularly one completely engaged in the fight, is to see beyond itself.  Typically, this only gets worse when campaigns, both ones winning and losing, reach the desperate phase — the point when you have simply run out of options because the end is near.  Every candidate wants to win, so no campaign, at any level of the ballot, is immune. Right now, Bernie Sanders falls into this box. Over the past month…

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Steve Schale: Florida state House rankings for May 2016

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Six months before Election Day, now that the candidates and races are starting to develop, I wanted to take a look at my favorite of all subjects: state House races. For those of you all who don’t know me well, I cut my teeth in the Florida House. State House races are my first political love, and for young rising operatives, I believe them to be the best of all proving grounds. Almost everything you do running for president, governor,…

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Steve Schale to Mac Stipanovich: Can #NeverTrump actually assure America is #NeverTrump?

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While we’ve ended up on the opposite sides of many a political fight, there are few people I respect more in the business than Mac Stipanovich. In many ways, Mac is the original GOP operative of the modern Florida political world. While he is a proud member of the GOP establishment, few people have been more disruptive in Florida than Mac. One of the things I admire about him, he is a patriot more than a partisan, and while frankly only…

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Dear Democrats: Think Donald Trump can’t win? Meet Rick Scott

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Dear Democrats: Well, it is a done deal. Republicans have chosen Donald Trump as their nominee, and already, my social media timeline is full of Democrats and Republicans saying this election is over. And I am here to tell you that you are wrong. Yes, I get it.  We all cheered his getting into the race.  I even told a national news outlet that his running was proof of a God that loved me.  And down deep, we all thought…

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