State Rep. Chris Dorworth, R-Lake Mary, who is in line to become House president, continues to fight for his political life.

Dorworth, a prolific fundraiser, was expected to easily win the Republican-leaning district, but instead finds himself 37 votes behind Democratic challenger Mike Clelland, a firefighter from Longwood.

A recount is expected as absentee and provisional ballots remain uncounted.

Meanwhile, Democrats were also able to grab a number of other Central Florida seats, erasing the House GOPs supermajority for the next two sessions.

Three controversial Florida Supreme Court justices have won retention to their seats on the state's high court, despite a high-profile campaign against them by critics who insisted they were left-wing activists unworthy of their office.

With about 91 percent of precincts reporting their vote totals, Justices Barbara Pariente, R. Fred Lewis, and Peggy Quince each received about 68 percent YES votes, a margin of victory well within the historic average. No Florida judge has ever lost a retention race.

Throughout the very long presidential election cycle, two trends remained consistent. The media lauded Obama no matter how horrendous his record, and they savaged Obama's Republican contenders as ridiculous pretenders.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., 70, has won a third term, claiming some 55 percent of the vote with 54 percent of the Sunshine States precincts reporting their vote tallies. Four-term Republican congressman Connie Mack IV pulled in about 42 percent of the vote total.

How I long for an inquiring press. Just once in all this early voting mess, won't somebody, anybody question the Democrats' outrage and need for legal redress over a shortage of voting days?