Buttressing Floridians' complaints about Washington's response to the giant BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal commission blasted the Obama administration for initially underestimating the scope of the disaster, and then overreacting politically.
As the tea party movement demanding a smaller government and lowered taxes continues to shape the political landscape, Republican members of Floridas congressional delegation offered plans this week to reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
Pundits predicted a verbal brawl, and at times, that's what the three leading candidates in the U.S. Senate race delivered. In the first get-down-to-business October debate Wednesday night. No Party Affiliate Gov. Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek went after Republican Marco Rubio, aiming to dislodge him as the race's runaway leader.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio outdid himself in the fund-raising quarter that ended Sept. 30, raising $5 million in the three-month period to break the record he set last quarter for highest quarterly fund-raising haul in Florida history.
The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday for and against the constitutional amendment to ease class-size restrictions in public schools.
It's a topsy-turvy, upside-down political world out there for people who thought Barack Obama would be cruising at a 70 percent approval rating while crushing the Republicans like bugs. In fact, the opposite has happened. The Senate majority leader is in grave danger of involuntary retirement. Everyone in Washington concedes Nancy Pelosi is unlikely to bang the gavel in January.
A new Gallup poll shatters the conventional wisdom that Democratic congressional candidates can be rescued with high voter turnout this fall.
Former RNC Chairman and U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez offered harsh words for fellow Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina in an interview with the Huffington Post.
Gov. Charlie Crist says in a new television ad that hes against raising the retirement age as an option for keeping Social Security solvent, and criticizes Republican U.S. Senate rival Marco Rubio for proposing to raise the retirement age and reduce benefits.
