Gov. Rick Scott was in Melbourne this morning helping to break ground on Embraer Aircraft's new Engineering and Technology Center, a $50 million capital investment expected to bring 200 jobs to the Space Coast city over the next five years.

With the governor for the event was Frederico Curado, president and CEO of Embraer S.A., and Gary Spulak, president, Embraer Aircraft Holding Inc.

Gov. Rick Scott stopped off in Gainesville Tuesday to celebrate the grand opening of Mindtree Limited's first U.S. delivery center. The Indian company says its U.S. expansion, which it announced last March, will bring the Gainesville area 400 jobs over the next five years and a $2.925 million capital investment in Ayers Building at Innovation Square.

Scott joined Mindtrees co-founders Krishnakumar Natarajan and Scott Staples for the ribbon cutting.

The 2012 election cycle wasn't kind to Jack Latvala.

His dream of leading the Florida Senate in 2016 -- after incoming President Don Gaetz this year and Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando in 2014 -- is now dimmer than a Flintstones' nightlight.

First, voters ousted two of his pledges -- state Reps. Jim Frishe, R-St. Petersburg and Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville -- in the GOP Senate primary.

Now Ellyn Bogdanoff, the primo name on his list, his prize pledge, lost her re-election fight.

Florida resident Karen Hughes, worldwide vice chair of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller and former counselor to President George W. Bush -- in a morning-after opinion piece in Time magazine -- makes an incisive case that "Obama's Campaign Diminished the Presidency." Here is some of what she writes:

Think the election is over? Not on the Treasure Coast, or in the Palm Beaches, or anywhere money can be raised to help hammer a nail in another GOP coffin.

In CD 2, Republican Congressman Steve Southerland endured a spirited fight from former state Sen. Al Lawson, keeping his North Florida seat. Political observers called the race at 10 p.m. for the Panama City mortician with 320, 887 votes cast. Southerland had 53.26 percent of the the vote to Tallahassee Democrat Lawson's 46.74 percent.

Both CNN and FOX TV networks have called the U.S. Senate race for Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson.

It looked ominous for Republican challenger Congressman Connie Mack IV at 7:30 p.m. ET when the most conservative county in Florida, Clay, clocked Nelson 10 points behind Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Romney was beating President Barack Obama at that point -- with 55 percent of the vote counted -- 73 percent to 26 percent.

Oops. Election Day snafu No. 1 (as far as we know so far) comes not from South Florida but from the left coast, from Pinellas County, where hundreds of voters were told to come to the polls on Wednesday, not today.

A robocall meant to be auto-dialed on Monday mistakenly went out between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Those on the receiving end were folks who asked to vote by mail but hadn't returned their ballots.

On Sunday, when the Tampa Bay Times staff named the Democratic legislative candidates their "Loser of the Week," they so nailed it.

Wrote the Times, "We can't help suspect that the GOP plan to oust three Florida Supreme Court justices was actually a head fake to ensure trial lawyers spend millions defending the justices instead of helping elect Democratic legislators."

He said he was going to stay completely out of the presidential race, but New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg -- his city still partially submerged, without power and facing a rising death toll from Hurricane Sandy -- has endorsed President Obama.

According to Politico, he did it "via the Twitters":

@BloombergTV: BREAKING: Mayor @MikeBloomberg endorses @BarackObama for re-election