With President Barack Obama in Miami Beach with state CFO Alex Sink --the overwhelming favorite to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination --later this month for a fund-raiser, Rick Scotts campaign team has averted its fire from GOP primary rival Bill McCollum to focus on the Democrats.

The law firm representing a coalition of Tea Party groups suing the Florida TEA Party has quit the case, and will file its own suit. Everett Wilkinson, head of the South Florida Tea Party and plaintiff in the lawsuit, said the firm of Quintaros, Prieto, Wood & Boyer will no longer represent his coalition in the pending federal court case.

Health-care executive Rick Scott launched a new ad on Thursday against Attorney General Bill McCollum, his chief rival for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. The ad claims that McCollum voted to raised taxes more than 40 times during his 20 years in Congress.

It looks like the issue of President Barack Obamas birth certificate is not going away any time soon. CNN released a poll that found that 16 percent of all Americans think Obama was probably born in another country and 11 percentthink he definitely was. According to the poll, more than a quarter of Americans think there is a very strong possibility that Obama is constitutionally ineligible to serve as president.

While U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek has not been able to get President Barack Obama to campaign for him in a close battle with Jeff Greene for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate race, Meeks team revealed on Thursday that former President Bill Clinton would hit the campaign trail on their behalf. Clinton will attend three rallies for Meek on Monday, Aug. 16 -- a little over a week until the primary election on Aug. 24. The events will be held in South Florida.

With the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Unified Sportsmen of Florida (USF) giving Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Scott an A for his support of Second Amendment rights, the candidate is crowing about the grade.

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate race, released the third of his series of videos focusing on reducing the size and cost of the federal government on Thursday. In the latest video, Rubio focused on Congress sunsetting programs.

With Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres running a television ad attacking Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach, his rival for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, the Gelber campaign returned fire on Thursday morning.

With less than three weeks until the primary, the hotly contested battle for the Democratic attorney general took a turn Thursday as Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres ran the first TV ad of the contest. The ad stresses Aronbergs opposition to oil drilling and takes a shot at his opponent for the Democratic nod, Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach, bringing up his ties with a law firm that represented BP.

With a report in USA Today ranking Florida as the state least helped by the federal stimulus, the team of U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is unleashing heavy fire on the Democrats who backed it -- as well as the then-Republican and now independent Gov. Charlie Crist. Crist, who is running for the Senate as well, embraced the stimulus, being one of President Barack Obamas biggest Republican supporters on the issue.

John Stemberger of Florida Family PAC and the Florida Family Policy Council, and Dennis Baxley formerly with the Christian Coalition, announced on Wednesday that they have organized social conservatives for Attorney General Bill McCollums bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. McCollum, who a few months ago was considered a heavy favorite for the nomination, now trails health-care executive Rick Scott in the polls.

Floridians opposed to new federal health-care laws backed by President Barack Obama had two reasons to celebrate on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, more than 70 percent of voters in Missouri passed a measure opposing the new health-care laws. On Wednesday, the Florida Supreme Court announced it would review a lower court decision that had removed a similar measure to the one that passed in Missouri from the November ballot. Led by Sen. Carey Baker, R-Eustis, and Rep.

With less than three weeks until the primary and trailing in the polls behind health-care executive Rick Scott for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, Attorney General Bill McCollum is bringing out prominent conservative supporters in an attempt to salvage his campaign. McCollum will campaign across the state on Monday with former Gov. Jeb Bush -- an early backer of the attorney general who remains popular among Florida Republicans.

While the U.S. Senate is expected to approve President Barack Obama naming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, U.S. Sen. George LeMieux of Florida said that he would join most of his fellow Republicans in opposing the nomination.

Trying to salvage his once-promising candidacy for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, locked in an acrimonious battle for the Democratic nomination with billionaire financier Jeff Greene, kicked off an 11-day bus tour of the state in Orlando on Wednesday. "I'm excited to get the dust under our wheels and get our campaign out on the road, said Meek. There couldn't be a better place to start our tour. It's in Orlando where I announced our campaign's history-making petition drive and started the yearlong effort to build a top-notch grass-roots campaign.