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.

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.

Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart won a straw poll and gained an endorsement on Monday.

Diaz-Balart currently holds the seat in the 25^th Congressional District which he is vacating to run for the seat currently held by his brother, U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. The district stretches across the southern part of the state, taking in parts of Collier, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

Citizens Against Government Waste is taking aim at two members of the U.S. House delegation from Florida in its newest Pork Alert. Looking at the 2011 proposed budget for the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the group included the following jab at two Florida Democrats:

Florida Right-to-Life PAC endorsed Sen. John Thrasher, R-Jacksonville, on Monday for re-election. Thrasher, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, faces Deborah Gianoulis, a long-serving news anchor in Jacksonville, who is running as a Democrat and Charles Pernciaro in the Republican primary.

Republicans in Florida, looking to push an immigration law in Florida similar to recent measures pushed in Arizona, will be heartened by a new poll taken by Rasmussen Reports. The poll found that Floridians want a similar measure to the one that passed in Arizona, with 62 percent favoring that type of legislation, 24 percent opposing and 14 percent remain undecided.

Six days after writing a letter laying out his take on where the Obama administration and Democrats in Washington have gone wrong, incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, has not heard back from U.S Sen. Bill Nelson.

Reports are coming in that Attorney General Bill McCollums gubernatorial campaign has $800,000 in the bank -- having spent $4 million to fend off health-care executive Rick Scotts challenge for the Republican nomination. With six weeks to go until the primary, McCollum needs cash, and fast (something the Scott team will point out as one of the reasons why McCollum is taking an active part against Scotts challenge to Florida campaign finance laws).

One national pundit has weighed in at the way McCollums bank account plummeted.