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After his big win in the Florida primary on Tuesday, Republican hopeful Mitt Romney is looking to focus his fire on President Barack Obama -- though, of course, there are still three GOP candidates standing in the way of him and the partys nomination. The Romney team fired away at Obama as they unveiled a new website hammering the president on a number of fronts.
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With all the media chatter about the GOP super PACs assault on the airwaves, Sen. Marco Rubio predicts the Obama campaign will take negative ads to the next level.
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The Florida Alliance for Main Street Fairness -- which includes the Florida Retail Federation, the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Florida -- released the following statement in support of a pair of Senate bills that would seek to capture sales taxes from online purchases made by Floridians through companies outside the state: "Top business leaders today thanked lawmakers for advancing E-Fairness legislation through two key Senate committees.
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U.S. unemployment dropped 0.2 of a percentage point in January from December, according to the national estimate by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today. "Job growth was widespread in the private sector in January, with the largest gains occurring in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing," John M. Galvin, Bureau of Labor Statistics acting commissioner stated in a release. The national unemployment stood at 8.3 percent last month, with the overall number of unemployed now at 12.8 million.
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The Urban Institute, a group that's generally no friend to conservative causes, released a report Thursday on the state of race relations in different cities in the U.S., ranked from one to 100 in descending order of cordiality.
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In the "in case you didn't know" department ... Charter school champion Frank Biden is pushing education reform that promotes the growth of public charter schools -- a bipartisan initiative that has advanced in recent years in the GOP-led Florida Legislature. And, yes, this is the brother of Vice President Joe Biden. Biden works with Maverick Schools, whose public charter schools cater to disadvantaged and special needs students.
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State insurance regulators have finalized a settlement with Prudential Financial over its handling of death benefits from life insurance policies. According to a release from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Prudential has agreed to improve its practice of identifying deceased policyholders in order to pay beneficiaries.
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U.S. Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, has requested that the $250,000 that remains unspent from his office budget be directed immediately toward the national debt. Families in my South Florida district are tightening their belts and making sacrifices every day during these tough economic times, Rivera stated in a release.
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If you're waiting for another Newt Gingrich comeback, don't hold your breath. Women have this one covered, and they're not -- repeat, not -- hot for the Newtster. Women voters proved in Florida they don't want him. Period. Exit polls in Tuesday's GOP primary revealed a landslide victory among women for family man Mitt Romney over thrice-married Gingrich -- 52 percent to 28 percent. Obviously, when they got to the polls, women voters didn't forget his philandering. They don't admire it, they don't forgive it and they don't want it in their president.
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With Arizona holding its Republican presidential primary on Feb. 28, a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Thursday finds Mitt Romney holds a commanding lead there. Romney leads the poll of likely primary voters with 48 percent, followed by Newt Gingrich with 24 percent. Rick Santorum stands in third with 13 percent while Ron Paul lags with 6 percent. Six percent remain undecided and 2 percent are for other candidates. The poll of 750 likely Arizona Republican primary voters was taken Feb. 1 and had a margin of error of +/- 4 percent.
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With Donald Trump off to Nevada on Thursday -- and rumors increasing that he will endorse a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination -- the team behind Ron Paul took aim at the billionaire.
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It's almost a truism of liberal American journalism: Homelessness is only a crisis when a Republican is in the White House. It's just as true that economic news automatically improves when a Democrat is running for re-election. Witness yesterday's USA Today (the only major newspaper readily available in this newspaper-starved capital city). Lead story on the Business section: "'Jan. Barometer' predicts good year."
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Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, now running in the Republican primary to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, unveiled his Okaloosa County campaign team on Thursday. I am proud to announce my Victory Team for Okaloosa County, a vital component of Floridas military presence, said LeMieux in the statement. While in the U.S. Senate, I sat on the Armed Services Committee and made it a priority to protect Floridas military bases. When I return to the Senate, I will fight for our men and women in uniform in Florida and throughout the world.
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Gov. Rick Scott Thursday delivered a thank-you message to the House Appropriations Committee for approving $1 billion for education. His written statement is as follows: On behalf of Floridas students, I thank Speaker Cannon and members of the House Appropriations Committee for focusing on my proposal to place an additional $1 billion into K-12 education.
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George Romney based his political career in Michigan -- and the Great Lake State is shaping up for a win for his son Mitt when it holds its Republican primary on Feb. 28, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Thursday. Romney leads the poll of likely primary voters with 38 percent, followed by Newt Gingrich with 23 percent, Rick Santorum with 17 percent and Ron Paul with 14 percent. Six percent remain undecided, while 1 percent back other candidates.
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