Who is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination? According to a new Gallup poll, there isnt one.

Gallup took a poll of 925 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents on Nov. 13-14 and found the nomination is up for grabs. The poll had a margin of error of +/- 4 percent.

The poll shows that there is a clear top tier of candidates -- all of whom are familiar faces.

Florida will be leaning a bit more to the right this weekend as conservative luminaries head down to the Breakers in Palm Beach for the Restoration Weekend event hosted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Besides the neocon namesake of the host organization speaking, other presenters include former U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, Liz Cheney, Ann Coulter, Michael Barone, Fred Barnes, U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa and U.S. Rep. Ed Royce of California.

Congressional Democrats met on Tuesday and a Sunshine Democrat called out Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

According to the National Journal, U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd, who went down to defeat earlier in the month as Republican Steve Southerland routed him at the polls, said to Pelosi, Youre the main reason we lost!

More than two weeks after losing the attorney general race, former Democratic House leader and state Sen. Dan Gelber shows no sign of going away.

On Wednesday morning, Gelber took aim at comments that new Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, made in his speech to open the new House.

More than 50 congressional Republicans, led by U.S. Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, have joined the legal challenge launched by Attorney General Bill McCollum against new federal health-care laws backed by President Barack Obama.

Price and members of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) filed an amicus brief -- joining 20 states led by Florida as well as the National Federation of Independent Business.

House Majority Leader Carlos Lopez-Cantera, R-Miami, offered his take on the special session held on Tuesday -- and praised the new leadership but also the bipartisan effort that led to overriding eight vetoes that lame-duck Gov. Charlie Crist issued earlier in the year.

Bloomberg-Scarborough 2012?

Howard Fineman at the Huffing Post reports that the New York mayor and former Panhandle congressman turned MSNBC pundit have talked about making an independent bid at the White House.

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Incoming U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio weighed in on Tuesday night after his first meeting of theRepublican Senate Conference. He was pleased with the meeting -- and the cost-saving ideas that came out of it.

While Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said on Tuesday that he had no intention of running for the Republican presidential nomination, Tom Beaumont of the Des Moines Register reported that there appears to be a near-certain candidate -- former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Beaumont notes that Gingrich is making financial arrangements to runfor the presidency and could make an announcement as early as February.

Overriding a veto issued by Gov. Charlie Crist, abill by Rep. Denise Grimsley, R-LaBelle, on clarifying the sale of agricultural land passed the House unanimously on Tuesday afternoon. The measure also went through the Senate -- leading incoming Agricultural and Consumer Services Commissioner Adam Putnam to cheer the news.