Nancy Smith

Republican David Rivera may live in a swirling black hole of legal problems and corruption allegations, but political analysts who know him and his South Florida district are raising a yellow flag:

Congressional District 22 -- rock-ribbed conservative Adam Hasner vs. outspoken liberal Lois Frankel -- has something many districts do not: more than a quarter of its voters are up for grabs.

In conjunction with Voter Survey Service (VSS) of Harrisburg, Pa., Sunshine State News will release survey results and analyses in two of Florida's most fiercely contested congressional races on Th

For the nearly two years Ken Pruitt was president of the Florida Senate, when most of the press labored to ignore his statesmanship, Don Gaetz was paying close attention. He admired the Port St.

There's dirty and then there's blatantly dishonest.

Woe is the Democrat who thinks Rick Scott is chopped liver in 2014.

As it happens, this judicial independence business is all baloney. It plain doesn't exist.

Don't take it from me -- take it from the Supreme Court of the United States.

Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain -- always popular among fellow veterans -- turned up in Tallahassee at a packed American Legion Post Wednesday, campaigning for Mitt Romney.

So you want to shake a finger at the Republicans for politicizing merit retention? You think they're the ones who render the judiciary less independent?

In November when I vote not to retain the three justices on the ballot, it will have nothing to do with a handful of Florida rulings that run contrary to my politics.

Academics loved Barack Obama in 2008, and they love him still in 2012 -- particularly the ones associated with public colleges and universities.

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.

If I were smart, I'd stop speculating what Charlie Crist is going to do. He's going to do what Charlie Crist always does -- wait to see which way the wind blows, then let us know.

Generation Opportunity, a right-leaning group that polls youth voter sentiment, is out with a new survey that reveals twice as many young adults would rather work on Wall Street as protest it.

Make a habit of feeding alligators and you'd better never stop. If you do, they're going to get a little angry and try to eatyou.