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Return of the Saltshaker series examining the veracity of the latest polling

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It’s officially Summer, the legislative session has (finally) ended and there are at least a dozen serious candidates declared for president – and that’s just the Republican side of the ledger. Do you know what that means? POLLING SEASON HAS BEGUN! I know it’s a little crazy but we are only (yes, “only”) about 200 days from the Iowa Caucuses. And, in case you haven’t been following political news, someone is releasing a new poll almost weekly. Do you know what…

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Mary Mulhern says she’s officially running for CD 13 seat in Pinellas County

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Mary Mulhern announced today that she will be soon filing to run for the Florida Congressional District 13 in Pinellas County currently being occupied by Republican incumbent David Jolly. The 56-year-old former Tampa City Councilwoman floated the idea just 11 days ago that she was contemplating a possible run for the seat, which was held for over 42 years by C.W. Bill Young until his death in late 2013. She said at the time that she had been meeting in recent…

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New NH Poll shows Jeb Bush as the early leader, with Donald Trump right behind him

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Although it should go without saying that polls conducted as the summer of 2015 commences may not have anything to do with what happens in the winter of 2016, nevertheless they are the “snapshot in time,” as the proverbial phrase goes regarding where the electorate stands. That should be good news for Jeb Bush in the new Suffolk University poll that was published earlier on Tuesday. The newly minted “official” 2016 GOP presidential candidate leads the field, but that only means he gets 14…

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Jeb Bush faults Obama for not preventing federal records breach

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Jeb Bush blamed President Barack Obama on Monday for failing to heed warnings that could have prevented hackers from accessing personal information about millions of federal employees. In a piece posted on Medium.com, a blog-publishing platform, Bush writes that the Democratic administration “failed to take basic steps to protect the sensitive personal information of millions of its employees” after the release of a report last year that suggested the federal Office of Personnel Management was vulnerable to attack. The agency’s…

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Rand Paul super PAC attacks Jeb Bush as ‘Bailout Bush’

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With a new poll showing Jeb Bush gaining support and Rand Paul losing it with some GOP primary voters, the Kentucky senator’s Super PAC is now attacking the former Florida governor as “Bailout Bush” in a new digital ad and website (though as of this morning that website is up but hasn’t been constructed yet). America’s Liberty PAC’s ad is over the top, a parody of an infomercial with a salesman hyping a doll named “Bailout Jeb Bush.” The ad makes reference to Bush…

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Florida Democrats hope to win Marco Rubio’s Senate seat by sidelining liberal congressman Alan Grayson

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Democrats see a chance to pick up the Florida Senate seat being vacated by Republican Marco Rubio — but only if U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson stays out of the race. Democratic leaders fear Grayson could spoil the party’s chances for capturing the seat by challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy in the primary. Rubio is running for president instead of seeking a second term. Grayson, who is considering a Senate run, is known for using fiery rhetoric to knock down…

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Democrat Patrick Murphy opens up solid leads over possible Republican U.S. Senate opponents

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Democratic candidates hold small early leads in Florida’s 2016 U.S. Senate race, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today. In possible matchups in the 2016 U.S. Senate race in Florida: Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy tops Republican Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera 40-28 percent; Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson tops Lopez-Cantera 37-31 percent; Murphy tops Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis 39-31 percent; Grayson tops DeSantis 38-32 percent; The possible candidates are largely unknown at this point as the percentage…

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