U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the front-runner for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November, unveiled his Broward County team on Thursday.

Broward County is critically important to our success, and this team of talented individuals will help us achieve our goals, Mack said. I am proud of the group we have assembled, and look forward to working closely with them and the voters of Broward County as we work to turn out voters for victory in the primary.

Citizens United Political Victory Fund (CUPVF) announced that they were backing former U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon for the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November. CUPVF is the PAC affiliated with conservative group Citizens United, best known for its successful challenge to federal campaign finance laws. CUPVF also put its money where its mouth is -- sending $10,000 to the Weldon campaign.

The economy is on center stage in national politics on Thursday as Barack Obama heads up to Ohio to offer a speech on the subject in the afternoon to argue that he needs more time to turn it around.

Republicans have been firing away at Obama on the economy this week -- and a new poll shows they have the wind at their back on the issue as more Americans trust Mitt Romney to handle it. A poll of likely voters from Rasmussen Reports shows that 50 percent trust Romney to manage the economy while 42 percent think Obama would do a better job with it.

Former state Senate President Tom Lee is looking to get back into the Florida Senate -- but he has an interesting Republican primary battle with Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Tampa, looming in August.

Lee won the endorsement of one of the leading Republicans in the state on Thursday when Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she was backing him.

Endorsements keep coming in the race to replace term-limited Sen. Steve Wise, R-Jacksonville, in representing parts of the First Coast in Tallahassee.

On Thursday, Rep. Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville, announced that he had won the backing of Mike Hogan, who served in the Florida House and as Duval County tax collector before losing out to Alvin Brown in the Jacksonville mayoral race in 2011.

Hogan looked to showcase Weinsteins conservative credentials in his endorsement.

With President Barack Obama heading to Ohio on Thursday as he starts his efforts to convince voters that he needs more time to turn the economy around, the Republican National Committee (RNC) is going all out to attack him for wanting a mulligan.

The RNC took aim at Obama in a video unveiled on Thursday -- and, just in time for the U.S. Open which also starts on Thursday, the ad does not shrink from making golf references.

The great Eddie Cochran sang in his classic hit Summertime Blues (not all of us in Generation X associate the song with Alan Jackson) about the problems a teenager encounters when free from school -- and his lines about summer jobs and calling up congressmen came to mind on Wednesday as former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, now running in the Republican primary to take on Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November, weighed in on teenagers searching for jobs.

On Wednesday, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi endorsed U.S. Rep. Connie Mack in the Republican primary to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November.

Every few years, theres a movement to replace The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem -- but these efforts always fail miserably. As hard as it may be to sing, and while it may commemorate a battle in a mostly forgotten war --the country has done next to nothing to mark the bicentennial of the outbreak of the War of 1812 -- a new poll shows that Americans are solidly behind keeping The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem.

Hours after Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa, withdrew his bid for another term, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam threw his support to House Speaker Pro Tempore John Legg, R-New Port Richey, to replace him.

John Leggs true conservative ideals will be key in driving our state forward and growing our economy, said Putnam on Tuesday.He knows how important it is to start with the fundamentals and build upon them to create a more dynamic and highly-educated work force for our forward-thinking state.I support John for Senate District 17 and urge the voters to do the same.