Former presidential candidate and national conservative leader Gary Bauer endorsed Attorney General Bill McCollum for governor on Tuesday over Republican primary rival Rick Scott. Bauer, who is now with the Campaign for Working Families PAC and the group American Values, is a vocal opponent of abortion and a staunch defender of the need for religious voices in the public square.

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 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.