A bit of peekaboo, I see you luck befell Florida Democrats on Tuesday, when the Democratic National Committee noticed how toasty the state's highest-profile races were getting and expressed its excitement with a tidy contribution. The DNC tossed $333,000 of its $2 million mid-term pot to Sunshine State Dems. In fact, the national party gave big bucks like these only to states where Democrats have a chance of winning Ohio and Florida.

Lets Get to Work Florida, a 527 organization that is supporting Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Scott, released a new video attacking Attorney General Bill McCollum, Scotts main rival for the GOP nomination. The ad hammers McCollum for switching positions on issues ranging from stem cell research to immigration laws. The ad closes with speculation of what McCollum would try to do to keep up with Scott, and then shows a photo of McCollum with no hair -- shades of Scotts increasingly famous bald head.

A new pollreleased Tuesday by Reuters and Ipsos shows Gov. Charlie Crist leading the race for the U.S. Senate seat while Rick Scott is the favorite in the gubernatorial race. The poll has independent candidate Crist at 35 percent while former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican nominee, places second with 28 percent. U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, who is facing a tough primary fight for the Democratic nomination from billionaire financier Jeff Greene, pulled 17 percent. When Meek is replaced by Greene, Crist leads Rubio 34 percent to 29 percent.

Rudy Moise, running in a crowded Democratic primary to replace U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek in Congress, has launchedhis first television ad. The winner of the Aug. 24 primary will face an independent in November; no Republican candidate made the final ballot.

At the steps of the old Capitol to launch a new organization to register African-American and Caribbean voters across Florida, Sen. Tony Hill, D-Jacksonville, weighed in on a number of topics, including the special session of the Legislature next week, extension of unemployment benefits and the need for an Arizona-style law on immigration in the Sunshine State. Hill disagreed with Gov. Charlie Crists proposal to limit the session to focusing on forwarding a proposed constitutional amendment to the voters which would ban oil drilling in state waters.

Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hallandale Beach, endorsed Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres, over Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, in the close Democratic primary battle for the attorney general nomination. As a state senator, I have served with both AG candidates in this race. I have chosen to support Dave Aronberg because he has dedicated his entire career to public safety and consumer protection -- and has the results to prove it, said Sobel.

Workshops at the South Florida Water Management District are typically rather dry affairs. But Tea Party groups say they will stir things up Wednesday. A coalition of local Tea Party organizations and the Republican Majority Committee PAC plan to descend on SFWMD headquarters in Palm Beach to protest the district's $536 million purchase of 73,000 acres of U.S. Sugar property. Downsized from the original deal, the revised plan contains an option for 107,000 more acres at a yet-to-be-determined price.

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate race, said that America faces a crucial decision between continuing to follow the capitalist system or whether to embrace some form of government control in the economy.

Behind in the polls and short on cash, Republican gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Bill McCollums campaign, trying to catch up with Rick Scott, trumpeted an endorsement from Quin Hillyer, an editorial writer with the conservative Washington Times.

BP has placed a tighter cap on the leaking oil well estimated to be spilling as much as 60,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico daily. The company says that it could take two days to determine if the cap, which BP has said will contain the leak completely, is working. A permanent solution to the spill won't come until August, when BP completes two relief wells. The company is saying that project is still on schedule.

Former Rep. Loranne Ausley, the Democratic nominee for CFO, sent out an e-mail on Tuesday, trying to round up some donors in the last days before the deadline on Friday for campaign financial reports. In it, Ausley wrote that her internal polling found her just behind Senate President Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach, the Republican nominee.

Independent congressional candidate Paul McKain, running for the seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd, is holding a unique event on Saturday -- taking part in the Second Amendment fund-raiser at the Wakulla County Sheriff's Office Otter Creek Shooting Range. The event is also being sponsored by the Tallahassee Gun Forum and Seminole Outdoors & Archery Pro Shop.

George Steinbrenner, a "Yankee" who Floridians actually liked, passed away this morning at his Tampa home. Felled by a massive heart attack, the 80-year-old baseball owner, businessman and philanthropist left a large legacy. Like Henry Flagler, another Ohio-based captain of industry, Steinbrenner left Cleveland for Florida to pursue business opportunities in sunnier climes. Thirty-five years later, Steinbrenner had parlayed the family's shipbuilding business and helped build his adopted hometown of Tampa.

With the clock ticking until financial reports are due in for state candidates on Friday, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Scott -- far ahead of rival Attorney General Bill McCollum when it comes to bank accounts -- is pushing the Scott surge. The Scott team unveiled a new Web video on Tuesday morning, askingtheirbackers to make a financial contribution before the deadline.

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate race, unveiled a new Web video on Tuesday morning. He also announced, in an address in Tampa later in the day, that he would initiate a new phase of his campaign -- unveiling policies and ideas that he says will help jump-start the economy and make the federal government more effective.