In an interesting blog post on Tuesday, Dr. Brighten Godfrey notes that political divisiveness has reached new heights in Congress -- with Democrats backing President Barack Obama and Republicans voting against him.

With less than a month until the primary election on Aug. 24, Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres, shot down the idea of holding 11 debates with Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, his rival for the Democratic attorney general nomination. Last week, Christian Ulvert, Gelbers campaign manager sent a letter to the Aronberg campaign proposing more debates.

The campaign team of Attorney General Bill McCollum unleashed a new line of attack on Republican gubernatorial primary rival Rick Scott on Tuesday -- by bringing out pop culture references.

Facing a tough challenge from Dr. Charles Perniciaro for the Republican nomination, Sen. John Thrasher, R-Jacksonville, announced on Tuesday that he was being endorsed by the Florida Police Benevolent Association (PBA). The winner of the Republican primary will face former news anchor Deborah Gianoulis, the Democratic candidate, in November.

With the fall elections fast approaching, Democrats are taking heat for stalling on taxes. If the Democratic-controlled Congress does not act by Dec. 31, the effect will be a $115 billion tax increase next year. Amid intensifying pressure, however, some prominent Democrats remain tone-deaf -- and delinquent -- when it comes to taxes. To wit: Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., avoided paying $500,000 in taxes on his yacht.Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets to the IRS.

SBA Administrator Karen Mills is in Jacksonville today to visit A. Harold and Associates where owner Andy Harold received two federal Recovery Act loans and created 10 new jobs. "Thanks to fees eliminated by the Recovery Act, Harold saved more than $33,000 in waived loan costs," an SBA news release stated. Harold is a service-disabled veteran and current reservist who runs a technology, education, engineering, training and management service for both public and private sectors.

With a new survey listing Florida as having one of the three worst economies of any of the states, the campaign team of former House Speaker Marco Rubio, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate, is taking aim at independent rival Gov. Charlie Crist.

A day after U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek ran his first commercial, attacking Jeff Greene, his leading rival for the nod, in the bitter contest for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate,the Greene campaign fired back by unleashing two commercials against Meek on Tuesday. Greene took a page from the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who included Meek among a list of the most crooked politicians running for office.

With Rep. Greg Evers, R-Milton, running for the Senate, the GOP primary to take his House seat is getting nasty between Greg Brown and Doug Broxson. How nasty?

Former Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Holly Benson announced on Tuesday morning that her bid for the Republican nomination for attorney general was being backed by two former Republican Party of Florida leaders: former Chairman Tom Slade and former Chairwoman and current Indian River County Tax Collector Carole Jean Jordan.

Attorney General Bill McCollum does not want you to get rickrolled.

With Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott wrapping up a bus tour of the state, the Florida Democratic Party is taking shots at some of the incidents that occurred on the trip, including Scott saying he would look into whether or not President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

Trailing badly in the polls behind health-care executive Rick Scott in the fight for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, Attorney General Bill McCollum sought to reinforce his crime-fighting credentials on Monday.

With less than a month until his showdown with Jeff Greene for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate race, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek finally took to the airwaves with a new commercial. While recent polls have found the Democratic nominee -- be it Meek or Greene -- far behind independent candidate Gov. Charlie Crist or Republican candidate Marco Rubio, the battle between the Democrats has increasingly gotten nasty and this commercial is no different. The Meek campaign is not focusing on its candidate at all despite polls showing he remained unknown to many Floridians.

With Kirk Headley-Perdue getting the backing of the Republican Party of Florida to the tune of more than $28,000, her opponent in the Republican primary for the House seat currently held by Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahasse, is up in arms.