Stuck in third place in the polls, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate race, now confronts whispers that he will pull out of the race. Stephen Moore over at the Wall Street Journal reported that Florida Republicans are worried such a scenario is in place -- and will leave Democrats who would back Meek voting for Gov. Charlie Crist who is running with no party affiliation.

The Wall Street Journal reports that President Barack Obama is not expected to sign legislation passed by Congress before it adjourned last week that would have forced states to recognize out-of-state notarizations of foreclosure documents. Obama will use the "pocket veto" method to effectively kill the bill.

The Sierra Club, with more than 30,000 members in the Sunshine State, endorsed both Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation, and Democratic candidate U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek on Thursday -- an endorsement which Meek promptly refused.

In their endorsement on Thursday, the Sierra Club praised both Crist and Meek for their records on the environment and attacked Republican candidate Marco Rubios record on green issues. Unlike his two rivals, Rubio did not seek the groups backing.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been named a visiting fellow for Harvard University's Institute of Politics, according to the Associated Press.

The fellowship is scheduled to begin Nov. 15.

No word yet on how Jeb's brother, ex-President George W. Bush, a graduate of Yale University, Harvard's hated rival, feels about the appointment.

The campaign of Scott Maddox, the Democratic nominee for commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, is offering voters a 'behind the scenes' look at his campaign.

His campaign website has posted a video detailing the production of Maddox's first ad.

A poll released by Mason-Dixon added to what is increasingly the conventional wisdom in the U.S. Senate race -- that Republican candidate former House Speaker Marco Rubio is the front-runner in the contest.

The poll had Rubio with 42 percent and Gov. Charlie Crist, who has no party affiliation, with 27 percent. In third place with 21 percent, Democratic candidate U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek has just half of the support that Rubio has.

The campaign team of U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, the Republican nominee in the race to be Floridas next agriculture and consumer services commissioner, announced on Thursday that their candidate won the endorsement of the Florida Association of Security Companies (FASCO) which represents more than 120,000 security officers in Florida.

On Thursday, Florida TaxWatch released a piece by Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux in which he argues that the federal government needs to return to 2007 levels of spending and needs to be run more like a business.

On Thursday, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania announced that he was creating the Iowa Keystone Political Action Committee, a PAC that will help candidates in that state -- the site of the first caucus in the open battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.