In 1994, Florida voters approved an amendment to the state Constitution that was intended to limit the growth of state government.The theory was that Florida government shouldnt grow faster than the peoples incomes that are funding it.

On Nov. 6, Florida voters will be asked to make many critical decisions in the voting booth which will impact all of our residents for generations.

Academics loved Barack Obama in 2008, and they love him still in 2012 -- particularly the ones associated with public colleges and universities. The president continues to rake in the lion's share of their campaign contributions.

But what a lion's share.

Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University, says the political skew within the academic community should be of little surprise. "Voting patterns among people in higher education are so colossally one-sided it's almost ridiculous," he says.

Now facing opposition from leaders of the state Republican Party, three Florida Supreme Court justices curtailed fundraising this summer for their merit-retention campaigns, according to state campaign finance records.

Justices R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince raised a combined $40,758 between Aug. 10 and Sept. 14, reports filed Friday show. Since July 7, they have raised a combined $92,693.

"The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside," Barack Obama said in an interview Thursday on the Spanish-language Univision network. "You can only change it from the outside."

ABC News jumped out in front of other fact-checkers on Friday, exposing President Barack Obama's "false claim" that the Fast and Furious program began under President George W. Bush.

It did not. In fact, the program began nine months into the Obama administration, in October 2009, and the network's online website "Political Punch" was the first to check the president's statement and set the record straight.