Despite his four decades on the Florida political stage, Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is in for a tough fight as he seeks a third term in 2012, according to a poll released on Wednesday from Quinnipiac University.
When matched up against Republican hopeful U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, whose father held the Senate seat for two terms, Nelson takes 41 percent while the GOP congressman has 40 percent.
President Barack Obama is upside down in Florida, a state he carried in 2008 and is targeting in 2012 as he runs for a second term, according to a poll from Quinnipiac University released on Wednesday morning.
A majority of Floridians -- 54 percent -- disapprove of Obamas performance in the White House. Forty-two percent of those surveyed approve of Obama.
The poll also found that a majority of Floridians -- 52 percent -- do not think that Obama deserves a second term in the White House. Forty-four percent of those surveyed think that Obama deserves four more years.
Republican presidential hopeful former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, becoming the first non-incumbent Republican presidential candidate to win both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire presidential primary.
With 92 percent of all votes counted, Romney led with 39.3 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas with 22.9 percent. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah stood in third with 16.9 percent.
Pundits and his opponents in both the Democratic and Republican ranks continue to pummel Mitt Romney as one of the weakest GOP front-runners in recent memory.
With the New Hampshire primary looming on Tuesday, the candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination sprinted across the Granite State as they campaigned for last-minute votes.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Monday finds former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts with a solid lead in Florida over the rest of the pack running for the Republican presidential nomination.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts is crushing the Republican field in New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Tuesday, according to two polls released Friday.
Romney is leading in New Hampshire, according to a Suffolk University/7News poll released on Friday, while former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who was only eight votes behind Romney in Tuesday nights Iowa caucus, continues to move up in the Granite State.
Responding to buzz that President Barack Obama will seek to raise the federal debt ceiling yet again, on Friday Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio --after vaulting into national prominence during the 2010 campaign cycle and being a leading vice presidential possibility for the 2012 Republican ticket --called out the Democrat incumbent in a strongly worded letter challenging the president's competence.
Rubio sent a letter to Obama on Friday, asking about reports that the administration plans to ask Congress to raise the debt ceiling to more than $16 trillion.
