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HuffPo lays groundwork for Jeb Bush in 2012

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Simon Rosenberg is the most bullish of Democratic strategists. The former Clinton administration official and head of the young non-profit group NDN has been the chief proponent of the belief that Barack Obama’s election produced the opportunity for a “30-to-40-year era of Democratic dominance.” A specialist in the political habits of different demographic groups (specifically Hispanics), he insists that, absent a drastic makeover, the GOP risks cementing itself “as irrelevant to the 21st century.” Sagging poll numbers and policy setbacks…

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Charlie Crist to meet with VP Joe Biden on Tuesday

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Charlie Crist will get another photo op with a top administration official when Vice President Joe Biden visits the state Tuesday. Biden will be at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola to examine efforts to counter the oil spill in the Gulf. Crist is scheduled to join him, according to a White House advisory on the event. Continue reading here. It’s the second time this month Crist has gotten face time with the administration. He and President Barack Obama walked…

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Florida Medical Association backs Bill McCollum and Marco Rubio

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Kevin Derby alerts us that, to no one’s surprise, the Florida Medical Association endorsed Bill McCollum for governor. An FMA endorsement of Rick Scott would have been as strange as Barack Obama tapping Tony Hayward to be secretary of energy. There’s been tension — if not outright bad blood — between physicians and Scott since he was the boss at Columbia/HCA. The health-care endorsement to watch will be the upcoming choice of the Florida Hospital Association. McCollum can really claim…

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State Rep. Darryl Rouson to meet with President Obama in Panhandle

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State Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, will travel Tuesday to the Florida Panhandle to meet with President Barack Obama and state leaders to discuss the Deepwater Horizon oil spill’s impact. Rep. Rouson looks forward to addressing the critical issues associated with the oil spill. “After inquiry and invitation, I am pleased to attend this event with the President and the Governor. We need to acknowledge the crisis the State of Florida is now facing and solve the problems caused by…

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State’s firefighters endorse Bill McCollum

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A good end for what has been a rough week for Bill McCollum as the Florida State Firefighters Association endorsed his gubernatorial campaign, Kevin Derby reports. McCollum’s status as Republican front-runner in the race was upended when a poll came out showing his chief rival, health care executive Rick Scott, was ahead by 13 points. McCollum’s lawsuit against the federal government over new health care laws backed by President Barack Obama suffered a blow when Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a measure, HB…

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State’s firefighters endorse Bill McCollum

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A good end for what has been a rough week for Bill McCollum as the Florida State Firefighters Association endorsed his gubernatorial campaign, Kevin Derby reports. McCollum’s status as Republican front-runner in the race was upended when a poll came out showing his chief rival, health care executive Rick Scott, was ahead by 13 points. McCollum’s lawsuit against the federal government over new health care laws backed by President Barack Obama suffered a blow when Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a measure, HB…

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Charlie Crist’s indy bid hurting Kendrick Meek more than Marco Rubio

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Republicans furrowing their brows over the Florida Senate race should try smiling instead, says the National Review: Calling Crist’s support among these Democrats “a proverbial house of cards,” Coker opined that it’s “very questionable whether or not these party and race numbers can hold up over the next six months unless the national Democratic party and its leaders (including President Barack Obama) throw Meek under the bus.” Worse, “when you see that more than half of Crist voters are Democrats, that’s…

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