Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, on CNNs State of the Union, called the recall election of Wisconsins governor a test run for the presidential race.

Its given the 'Obama for America' operation an opportunity to do the dry run we need of our massive, significant, dynamic grassroots presidential campaign, Wasserman Schultz said last Sunday before heading off to campaign with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

Florida leaders are firm that they are doing the right thing in asking supervisors of elections to clear noncitizens from the list of registered voters, even as the U.S. Department of Justice is questioning the legality of the process.

"With a single phone call, President Obama could have the data from (a Department of Homeland Security database) immediately released to the states," bristled RPOF Chairman Lenny Curry in a written statement Thursday.

A federal judge on Thursday barred enforcement of part of the state's controversial elections law, saying the rules made it too difficult for nongovernmental organizations to register voters.

Opponents of the law, approved by the Legislature last year, cheered the decision by District Court Judge Robert Hinkle to issue an injunction against some portions of the statute, most notably a provision requiring voter registration forms to be returned to elections officials within 48 hours of being filled out.

When Hillary Rosen said that Ann Romney had "never worked a day in her life," it was among the better days of the Romney campaign.

Florida continues to push for the Obama administration to release citizenship information, as elections supervisors from two Democratic-leaning counties have decided not to check for suspected noncitizens on the roll of voters.

Secretary of State Ken Detzner wrote again to the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday in an attempt to obtain what would be more updated citizenship information than the state currently has. Detzner is trying to remove noncitizens from the list of registered voters.

Even as Planned Parenthood unleashes a $1.4 million advertising campaign against Mitt Romney in Florida and a handful of other states, the nation's leading abortion provider is losing business.

From 2008 to 2011, the number of abortions dropped 19 percent in Florida, and that downward trend continues this year.

State legislators take some of the credit for the decrease, citing tougher regulations on abortion clinics.

Invoking the work of President George H.W. Bushs 1991 Gulf War alliance, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Miami, called on the United States to create a coalition of the willing to tackle Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

With a week to go until candidate filing closes, Dade City businessman Wilton Simpson appears to be in solid shape as he runs for a seat in the Florida Senate.

A Florida Department of Environmental Protection wetlands expert wasnt suspended for refusing to issue a wetlands credit permit as a newspaper contends, the state agency announced Thursday.

In fact, the DEP states, the permit application has yet to be completed.

However, the reason wetlands expert Connie Bersok has been put on paid leave, with an internal investigation under way, wasnt revealed.

It is not the departments policy to discuss employee personnel matters in the newspaper or with the general public, the two-page release from the DEP stated.