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Republicans’ midterm voting enthusiasm tops prior years

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An average of 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have said they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting this year compared with past elections, the highest average Gallup has found in a midterm election year for either party since the question was first asked in 1994. The prior high for a party group was 50% more enthusiastic for Democrats in 2006, which is the only one of the last five midterm election years in which Democrats have had an…

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Washington Post: Marco Rubio tests politics, ethnicity

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What is his stance on the Arizona immigration law? Does he favor amnesty for undocumented immigrants? “I don’t support amnesty,” Rubio says. “I support a legal immigration system.” A Cuban-American lawyer and former state House speaker, the 39-year-old Rubio has captured the attention of national Republicans hoping to attract Hispanic voters, a majority of whom voted for President Barack Obama in 2008. But it’s among Hispanic voters that some of Rubio’s conservative positions could prove divisive. Continue reading here.

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Alex Sink revs up Democrats, takes jabs at Republicans

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Taking a few jabs at Republicans, and offering herself as an antidote to what Democrats see as extremism from the right in Tallahassee, Alex Sink began rallying Broward activists for her gubernatorial campaign. “The campaign season is in full force,” Sink told about 75 people at a Democratic Professionals Council lunch at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Part of the reason politics is becoming front and center for people other than political activists – who live and breathe all…

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Jeff Greene thinks last night’s results show Kendrick Meek is doomed

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From Sunshine State News: Jeff Greene, the billionaire real estate investor running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, says that last night’s election results shows that voters are fed up with established politicians. “Last night’s results are proof positive of how frustrated and fed up voters are with politics as usual and the career politicians who have failed us,” said Greene. “I’m fed up too, that’s why we launched this campaign to shake up Washington, create jobs and…

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Jeff Greene thinks last night’s results show Kendrick Meek is doomed

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From Sunshine State News: Jeff Greene, the billionaire real estate investor running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, says that last night’s election results shows that voters are fed up with established politicians. “Last night’s results are proof positive of how frustrated and fed up voters are with politics as usual and the career politicians who have failed us,” said Greene. “I’m fed up too; that’s why we launched this campaign to shake up Washington, create jobs and…

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Democrats widen gap over Republicans in Florida voter registration

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My seemingly alter-ego at The Reid Report has a summary of the the new stats from the Florida Division of Elections: Democrats are trouncing Republicans at registering voters. Dems have registered 61,643 more voters since the 2008 election than Republicans have, swelling what was already a 700,000-plus registration advantage in the state. That doesn’t always win Democrats elections, of course, because of issues of turnout, and also due to the presence of conservative Dems in northern Florida who don’t always…

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Marco Rubio raising money with Colorado’s Jane Norton, Penn’s Pat Toomey

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Colorado Senate candidate Jane Norton announced Wednesday that she plans to host a fundraiser with Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio and Pensylvania candidate Pat Toomey. Norton is locked in a close race for the GOP nomination with Weld County DA Ken Buck. A spokesman told the Denver Post that the event is an effort to make bolster Norton’s credentials as “a conservative, surrounding herself with conservatives, and will govern as a conservative.” Buck, who had little name recognition before the campaign…

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