One of the worst things that can happen to a presidential nominee is being forced to look over his shoulder at the candidates he beat out for the partys nod -- and see that they are still running.
Mitt Romney does not want to see the likes of Rick Santorum and Herman Cain at the Republican convention in Tampa focusing on the Iowa and New Hampshire delegates.
One of the hot national topics rolling into this week is whether Barack Obama's campaign, reeling on its heels as it is, needs an intervention.
In his Sunday column, Albert R. Hunt insists it's unprofessional, wrong-minded, fighting the battles it won't win and, yes -- it needs an intervention big-time.
Hunt is executive editor of Bloomberg News, the man who directs the news agency's Washington coverage.
President Obama's latest political ploy -- granting new "rights" out of thin air, by executive order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children -- is all too typical of his short-run approach to the country's long-run problems.
More Democrats than Republicans registered to vote in Florida in May, driven by women and Hispanics, according to state registration data released early by the Democratic Party.
Democrats said they registered 5,108 more voters in May than the Republican Party did, the fourth month in a row the party has led the GOP in new registrations.
The party released the favorable figures ahead of the state, which typically lags in its reporting of the data on its website.
In one of the most interesting and competitive congressional primaries in the nation, two Republicans battling to represent a district in Central Florida -- U.S. Rep. John Mica and U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams -- are looking to rally conservatives to their banner by hammering President Barack Obamas immigration policies.
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide this week whether to hear a challenge to a 2006 Florida law that blocks funding for university professors to travel to Cuba or other countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism.
The Florida International University faculty senate and individual professors challenged the law, contending that it improperly infringes on the federal government's power to make decisions about foreign policy.
The majority of Floridas university students still face a maximum increase in tuition this fall.
Despite prognostications that a vote by the board of trustees from the University of Florida to lower its tuition would cause their counterparts to follow suit, the state board of governors is getting mostly 15 percent tuition rate increase requests from other state universities.
The Board of Governors is scheduled to decideon the individual hike requests Thursday afternoon.
?While he passed at jumping into the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Florida CFO Jeff Awater continues to remain politically active, endorsing candidates in competitive contests.
?Despite floating his name in the Senate race to take on Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson, Atwater has generated buzz as a future gubernatorial candidate in either the 2014 or, more likely, the 2018 election cycles. Whatever his future plans, Atwater has shown no hesitation in backing candidates in some of the most competitive Republican primaries in Florida.
While former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts has won enough delegates in the primaries and caucuses to claim the Republican presidential nomination, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, continues to pick up delegates for when the GOP holds its convention in Tampa come August.
Paul picked up 21 out of 25 delegates up for grabs at conventions in Iowa over the weekend. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who nosed out Romney to win more popular votes than any of the other candidates in Iowa, pulled out of the race earlier in the election cycle.
