Just two months ago political analysts agreed Democrats would win the battle for control of the U.S. Senate. The Republicans hold just a five-seat edge, and most of the 34 seats up for election or re-election are in either tossup states or states that lean to the left.
It isn't just the pneumonia diagnosis or the 9/11 fainting spell or the subdued, eyes-half-closed response to Saturday's bombing in New York that set off sirens on the Hillary Clinton health-o-meter.
It should surprise no one that Floridians have wised up to the costly and ineffective "tough on crime" philosophy that dominated state policy a quarter century ago.
On Monday, the James Madison Institute and Charles Koch Institute jointly released a poll that overwhelmingly supports criminal justice reform.
The Florida Bar announced Tuesday the results of a poll of Florida Bar members on the merit retention of three state Supreme Court justices and 28 appellate court judges.
Last Friday night Hillary Clinton wrote off half of Trump’s backers as a “basket of deplorables.”
The Democratic presidential nominee made the comments at an LGBT fundraising event in New York City, and by the next morning the Trump campaign was demanding an apology.
Here's what she said:
President Obama wants to be remembered for being the savior of the American and global economies. "There are things I’m proud of," he said earlier this year, citing Obamacare, then added, "Saving the world economy from a Great Depression, that was pretty good."
But the Wall Street Journal isn't buying it.
A post-Labor Day Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll of likely voters released Thursday afternoon shows the presidential race in Florida is in a dead heat and anybody's to claim -- 47 percent for Hillary Clinton, 47 percent for Donald Trump.
With buzz growing that he could run for governor of Florida in 2018, Mike Huckabee can at least count on the support of many Republicans across the Sunshine State.
Voters like Clinton more than Trump, but not much, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released Thursday. Nevertheless, in the battle of the unloved presidential candidates, independent pollster Quinnipiac still has Democrat Hillary Clinton topping the magical 50 percent mark among American likely voters and leading Republican Donald Trump 51 - 41 percent.
Nowhere do competing interests engage in lustier arguments over how much land should be in public ownership than in Florida.
Today, government owns nearly 50 percent of South Florida -- that’s 5.5 million acres. Some 27 percent of the state's total land mass is owned by some government entity.
