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Jim DeMint, Marco Rubio barnstorming South Carolina today – watch live on UStream

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Marco Rubio will be touring South Carolina with Sen. Jim DeMint (but no press) at a “Conservative Comeback Coffee” in Charleston, a “Conservative Comeback BBQ” in Columbia and a “Conservative Comeback Reception” in Greenville. For those of you unable to attend these events, you can watch DeMint and Rubio live on UStream at 2:00 p.m. According to a website launched just to promote the effort, Rubio and DeMint have already raised more than $50,000 online. Here is the video the…

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Connie Mack raisin’ direct-mail $ for Charlie Crist

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From the Reid Report, one of my favorite sites: Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III, better known as Connie Mack, the respected Republican who used to occupy the seat now held by Bill Nelson (trivia point: his son is a U.S. Congressman and is married to Sonny Bono’s widow… just thought you should know that …) isn’t pulling a John Cornyn by backing away from his endorsement last year of Charlie Crist. Mack has ok’d a fundraising letter on behalf of the…

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Connie Mack raisin’ direct-mail $ for Charlie Crist

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From the Reid Report, one of my favorite sites: Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III, better known as Connie Mack, the respected Republican who used to occupy the seat now held by Bill Nelson (trivia point: his son is a U.S. Congressman and is married to Sonny Bono’s widow… just thought you should know that …) isn’t pulling a John Cornyn by backing away from his endorsement last year of Charlie Crist. Mack has ok’d a fundraising letter on behalf of the…

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FAU denies conservative student group

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Florida Atlantic University (FAU) campus officials shut down and called campus police on four students and an alumnus of FAU to stop an informational meeting about starting a conservative organization on campus. James Shackelford, an FAU student, saw a need for a conservative club at the Florida Atlantic University campus and decided to start a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter. Shackelford hosted an informational meeting with FAU alum and Florida YAF State Director Daniel P. Diaz to discuss future…

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Susan MacManus: Charlie Crist not likely to run as Independent

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Some political observers are wondering is Gov. Charlie Crist may give up his bid to win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and run as an Independent instead. But USF Political Scientist Dr. Susan MacManus, doesn’t expect Crist to leave the GOP. “I don’t see Charlie Crist going independent, he’s a Republican through and through,” she said. MacManus says the country is focusing on this Senate race, because Florida remains a bellwether state. “Young versus old, moderate versus conservative, it’s…

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Charlie Crist, Rick Perry: A study in contrasts

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While Governor Rick Perry celebrated his commanding victory over U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary in Texas, Florida Governor Charlie Crist delivered his final State of the State speech to lawmakers in Tallahassee. The two events seemed to crystallize the opposite ends of the GOP, and the two Republican governors’ divergent campaign fortunes. In Texas, voters’ “yes” to Perry was an emphatic “no” to Washington, as The New York Times characterized the race on its front…

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Jeb Bush: Charlie Crist ‘unforgivable’ on stimulus support

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made his strongest statement to date on the Republican Senate primary unfolding in his state, telling the conservative publication NewsMax in an on-camera interview that he considers Gov. Charlie Crist’s support for last year’s stimulus bill “unforgivable.” “I know I’m supposed to be politically correct and I said I was neutral and all that,” Bush said, but added of Crist’s move: “I got a problem with that.” Bush has kept a careful distance from the…

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