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Mitch Perry Report for 8.31.15 — Taking Bernie Sanders seriously

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The biggest news on the presidential front this weekend was the Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll that shows Bernie Sanders down just seven points from Hillary Clinton’s support in Iowa, 37-30 percent. The presumptive front-runner has lost a third of her supporters since May in the nation’s first caucus state. So will the mainstream media begin taking him more seriously? ABC’s Martha Raddatz is. Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, she asked the Vermont senator about two things missing from his website: national security and foreign policy.…

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Four GOP U.S. Senate candidates make their cases at Florida GOP meeting in Tampa

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The four Republican candidates attempting to succeed Marco Rubio as the next Senator from Florida convened together for the first time on Saturday morning in Tampa. The four men – Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera, Congressmen David Jolly and Ron DeSantis, and former military veteran and CIA officer Todd Wilcox – are so little known that 86 percent of Floridians told Quinnpiac pollsters last week that they couldn’t form an opinion on any of them because of lack of knowledge about them. However, they literally have…

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Florida GOP to convene in Tampa this weekend

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Hundreds of members of the Republican Party of Florida will convene this Friday and Saturday in Tampa for the party’s summer quarterly meeting. “We are looking forward to our next quarterly meeting, and our next chance to bring Republicans from all over the state together,” Republican Party of Florida Chairman Blaise Ingoglia said. “We have planned a program that will engage the grassroots army and train our activists to be key leaders in our efforts throughout the state, from the Panhandle…

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Rick Scott right side up in new Q poll, 45-44 percent

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Rick Scott has been governor of Florida for over 5 1/2 years now, but other than his two election-day victories, he’s been more down than up when it comes to his personal approval ratings throughout his controversial tenure. That’s why the governor and his supporters have to be giddy this morning, after a Quinnipiac poll released early Tuesday shows Scott right side up, 45-44 percent, with 10 percent undecided. “With little attention on him these days, Gov. Rick Scott gets his best…

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David Jolly gets endorsement of conservative Richard Nugent in Senate race

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U.S. Rep. Richard Nugent is supporting fellow Republican U.S. Rep. David Jolly in his bid for the U.S. Senate. Nugent is the conservative former Hernando County sheriff who since 2010 has represented Florida’s 11th Congressional District, covering the region north of Tampa through Sumter, Citrus, Hernando, and central Marion counties. Jolly represents Pinellas County’s 13th Congressional District. A member of the Tea Party Caucus, Nugent most recently gained notoriety for his clash with Republican House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, which…

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Several GOP presidential candidates support ending birthright citizenship; what about Florida GOP Senate candidates?

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The issue of denying citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants has always been considered somewhat of a fringe idea, even among some of the biggest hawks fighting illegal immigration. The issue has come to the forefront this week after GOP presidential contender Donald Trump unveiled his white paper on immigration on Sunday, which included eliminating automatic birthright citizenship. On the campaign trail on Monday,  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker immediately signaled his support for the plan (before backing off).…

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James Madison Institute celebrates inaugural policy retreat

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One of the state’s largest liberty movements gathered this weekend to discuss a broad range of policy ideas at the first annual James Madison Institute Retreat. More than 150 JMI members from Florida and throughout the nation joined panels of experts at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to network, share ideas and hear from top policy experts. Headlining the event was Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, who shared stories and – as well as calls to…

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