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Jeff Atwater up 38%-34% over Patrick Murphy in extremely early 2016 Florida Senate poll

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Yes, of course it’s early. Nobody is thinking about the 2016 election. Right? Well, if you’re reading this, you have to admit you sort of care. And while the complete field of candidates running for the Florida Senate is very, very incomplete at this time (and we still don’t know if Marco Rubio will run for the seat), there are three candidates whose names are being bandied about as being possible nominees at the moment, along with the one official major party…

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Patrick Murphy visits Tampa Bay April 10 for Democratic meet-and-greet

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U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy visits Tampa Bay next week for a meet-and-greet with Democratic faithful to support his newly launched Senate bid. The event is Friday, April 10, at Mise en Place, 442 West Kennedy Blvd., between 4:30-6 p.m. With the expected April 13 announcement by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio that he is running for president in 2016, Murphy will immediately launch to the top tier of Democratic candidates seeking Rubio’s seat. Scheduled to appear are several of the region’s political…

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Patrick Murphy raises $750,000 in just over a week after announcing his candidacy for Senate

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South Florida Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy has been a declared candidate for the U.S. Senate for all of 10 days, but he was able to raise $750,000 since his announcement, his campaign team announced this morning. Combined with his previous fundraising for his congressional seat, Murphy announced that his campaign raised over $1.25 million in the first fundraising quarter of 2015, ending the period with $1.6 million cash on hand. “I am overwhelmed by the enormous support we’re receiving from…

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Bill Day’s latest: Pam Bondi, Allen West for Senate?

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When U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate, he set off an unusual chain of events among Florida Democrats. First, speculation flourished over a potential Democratic primary, with a number of leading contenders, such as former Gov. Charlie Crist, as well as U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Alan Grayson. Since then, both Crist and Wasserman Schultz have bowed out. And the chatter is growing that Grayson will possibly enter the race to replace Marco Rubio, particularly…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

Mitch Perry Report for 3.26.15 — How viable is Rubio’s plan to replace the ACA?

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I wrote up several stories regarding polls in Florida yesterday, and in one of those stories I wrote briefly about Marco Rubio’s plan to replace Obamacare. As we all know, the GOP has been castigated for being nattering nabobs of negativism (to trot out that golden oldie written by Pat Buchanan and uttered by Spiro Agnew) when it comes to the Affordable Care Act; always criticizing, always (in the House) voting to repeal, but barely able to come up with…

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Patrick Murphy takes aim at GOP House budget

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Newly minted U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Murphy fired a shot across the bow of the House Republican majority Wednesday, when he released a statement excoriating the priorities in the budget passed earlier this evening. “House Republicans have, once again, misplaced their priorities.  They’re turning their backs on seniors, working families, and critical infrastructure projects we need throughout Florida and the entire country,” said Murphy in the announcement. “There is no reason that we can’t combine fiscal responsibility with strengthening the middle…

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New poll says Floridians DO want Jeb Bush & Marco Rubio to realize their presidential ambitions

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Yesterday a Public Policy Polling survey showed that a majority of Floridians wanted neither Jeb Bush nor Marco Rubio to run for president in 2016. That was so yesterday. Literally. A new poll released this morning from St. Leo University shows quite the opposite — 63 percent of Floridians want Bush to run for president and 58 percent say they want Rubio to do so as well. A Bush/Rubio matchup shows the former governor besting the current U.S. senator, leading 39-30 percent. The poll contains plenty of…

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