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Poll: Voters mixed on President Obama’s performance

Published on May 10, 2010 in Statewide by Peter Schorsch

Florida voters remain divided over the performance of President Barack Obama in a new Mason-Dixon Poll released on Monday. Statewide, Obama’s performance was rated as excellent or good by 47 percent of those polled, and 53 percent rated his performance as fair or poor. The president’s highest marks came from residents in southeast Florida. Obama received the highest ratings from blacks, Democrats and people under the age of 35 years old. The lowest marks came from Republicans, whites, people over…

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District 58 voters head to polls

Published on February 23, 2010 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

From Janet Zink: Voters will go to the polls today in a special election for the District 58 state House seat. The Democratic candidate, Janet Cruz, has the advantage, with more money than her Republican opponent, Hunter Chamberlin, and she’ seeking to represent a district where more than half the registered voters are Democrats. But the one time in decades that a Republican took the post was in a special election, so Cruz is taking nothing for granted. She’s got…

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Scott Wagman pulls a John McCain by playing Van Halen’s ‘Right Now’ in campaign video

Published on July 20, 2009 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

I did not think the voters of St. Petersburg would see a candidate as gauche as Deveron Gibbons, who has the temerity to send out a mail-piece which cribs from Lawton Chiles’ 1990 campaign at the same time it shows a picture of Gibbons next to Charlie Crist, but Scott Wagman’s recent antics almost take the cake for flat-out gumption. Put aside my complaints about his advertising on Google without the proper disclaimer, but you can’t look past him putting…

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On the beaches, voters return familiar faces to their city halls

Published on March 13, 2009 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

Voters re-elected incumbents in Belleair, Belleair Bluffs and Indian Rocks Beach as residents headed to the polls on March 10 to cast their ballots in their municipal elections. The residents of Belleair Bluffs gave Chris Arbutine a new two-year term and re-elected all three incumbent members of the city commission. Joe Barkley will finish out the remaining year of a two-year term. Suzy Sofer and John “Jack” Nazario outpolled Robert Russo to win full two-year terms. Winning with more than…

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