Amid the ruins of the 2012 presidential election, Republicans are finally awakening to the fact that the coalition that propelled Ronald Reagan to two decisive electoral wins is no more.

While Republicans. from presidential candidates down to school board members, continue to invoke the Gipper as often as they can, the fact remains that even the youngest voters who could have punched the ticket for Reagan back in 1984 are now at least 50.

Election reform, along with jobs, education and ethics were listed as high priorities on a joint 2013 agenda released Tuesday when Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, and House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, were formally elected to run their respective chambers.

Floridians shouldnt be embarrassed that while most counties in our state run flawless elections, some counties keep running flawed elections, Gaetz said in his acceptance speech during the Legislatures organizational meeting.

"What the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote, and that strategy worked."

The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has sent a letter to President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demanding to know whether agency officials are using email aliases to avoid disclosing incriminating correspondence.