With less than three weeks until the primary, the hotly contested battle for the Democratic attorney general nomination took a hard turn Thursday when Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres ran the first television ad of the contest.

Meet the Smith family. They are a family of three with a pre-teen, growing boy. Mom and Dad attend the PTA, do community work and are pillars of the community.

Just four years ago, Associated Industries of Florida played a major role in getting Bill McCollum elected attorney general. But this year, they've made the unusual move of backing both McCollum and Rick Scott for governor.

State elections officials will not challenge a recent federal court ruling that threw out part of Floridas public campaign finance law, clearing the way for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott to spend his own millions freely for the rest of the primary.

Everybody, even White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, agrees that Republicans are going to pick up seats in the House and Senate elections this year. The disagreement is about how many.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday shows the two leading Republicans running for governor fare very differently when pitted against Democratic front-runner Alex Sink, the state CFO -- with health-care executive Rick Scott leading Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum trailing the Democrat.

Even though Gov. Charlie Crist hand-picked him to serve as his running mate in 2006, Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp on Wednesday endorsed Crist's chief opponent in the U.S. Senate race, former House Speaker Marco Rubio.

Republican voters are dead-set against public financing of election campaigns in Florida, a new Sunshine State News Poll reveals.

Two Florida tribes are wrangling with federal agencies over their finances. Critics say the disputes further tarnish the integrity of Indian gaming and raise troubling questions about the state's Seminole casino pact.