The Republican National Committee (RNC) looked to get ahead of President Barack Obamas speech on jobs on Thursday by releasing a radio ad in Florida and seven other states. The ad is being run in states that Obama won in 2008 but that Republicans think they can pick up in 2012 --they are Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Having won the Iowa Republican straw poll in August, GOP presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is having a bit of rearranging on her campaign staff. Political legend Ed Rollins, who led Ronald Reagans re-election effort in 1984, will be stepping down as campaign manager due to health reasons and will serving as a senior adviser to Bachmann.

With Labor Day having come and gone, the Republican presidential candidates are starting to take off the gloves and rip into each other. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah took aim at former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts on Tuesday. In a new web video, the Huntsman team compared Romney to President Barack Obama on the economy.

A little bad weather never put off the Sarah Palin faithful, and so it was Saturday in Indianola, Iowa, as a boisterous crowd of about 2,000 braved driving rain and a muddy field at a tea party rally to hear Palin attack "crony capitalism" and the "permanent political class" that reinforced it. It's destroying the U.S., she said.

Gator fans, are you ready for it? Nearly 24 hours left until the fan-favorite sequence hits the Swamp's south end zone, signaling the start of a new season and riling up Gator fans nationwide. Kickoff for the first game under new head coach Will Muschamp is set for 7 p.m. at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The Gators will be taking on Florida Atlantic University. ESPNU will be covering the television broadcast.

Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio weighed in on Friday on the news that the national unemployment rate remained at 9.1 percent in August -- the same as it was in July.

Two Republican presidential candidates from Texas -- Gov. Rick Perry and Congressman Ron Paul -- took aim at President Barack Obamas economic record on Friday after the news was released that the national unemployment rate remained at 9.1. percent in August -- the same as it was in July.

Some conservatives in Florida are mulling over opposing Chaz Bono, the transgendered child of the late U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono and entertainer Cher, appearing on"Dancing with the Stars." David Caten, the president of the Florida Family Association, sent out a message to supporters on Thursday.

On Friday, two of the co-sponsors of the Drug Take Back Day, the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI) and the CARES (Collaborating and Acting Responsibly to Ensure Safety) Alliance, cheered the news that almost 5,500 pounds of prescription drugs were turned into pharmacies and law enforcement during the event which was held on Aug. 27.

With the release Friday of a report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statisticsfinding unemployment remaining at 9.1 percent, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ripped into the economic policies backed by President Barack Obama.

A Fox News Poll, conducted by Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research and unveiled late on Thursday, revealed that voters do not want former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin entering the presidential race. Palin will be stumping in Iowa, which holds the first caucus, and New Hampshire, home of the first presidential primary, over the Labor Day holiday weekend.

A Fox News Poll, conducted by Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research and unveiled late on Thursday, revealed that Gov. Rick Perry of Texas held a solid lead over former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Apparently unable to spin the bad news on the jobs front, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz was called out today by Republicans. Just five days ago, Wasserman Shultz boasted to the Sun-Sentinel: "We're no longer bleeding jobs. We've been adding jobs in the private sector for 17 straight months. We are on the upswing ever since President Obama took office. But with today's Department of Labor announcement that the U.S. economy added zero jobs in August -- the first time that's happened since 1945 -- DWS & Co. had nothing to say.

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics unveiled a report on Friday showing that the national unemployment rate remained at 9.1 percent in August.Mulling these numbers over, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania pointed the blame at President Barack Obama.

On Friday, after the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the national unemployment rate remained at 9.1 percent in August, former Gov. Jon Hutnsman of Utah, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, took aim at President Barack Obama, his former boss, and his economic policies.