March 18, 2012 - 7:00pm
The 2012 congressional redistricting cycle following the 2010 Census is just about over and done with. And it seems likely to make much less difference than many of us expected.
Mitt Romney Out Front By 15 Points in PPP Poll of Illinois
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 19, 2012 - 8:24am
Illinois will have 69 delegates at the Republican convention in Tampa -- and a poll released on Monday finds that Mitt Romney has a large lead in the primary set for Tuesday.
A poll of likely primary voters from Public Policy Polling, a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, finds Romney taking 45 percent, followed by Rick Santorum with 30 percent, Newt Gingrich with 12 percent and Ron Paul with 10 percent.
The poll of 506 likely Illinois Republican primary voters was takenMarch 17-18 and had a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percent.
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Americans Rate Supreme Court in New Rasmussen Poll
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 19, 2012 - 8:16am
Rasmussen Reports released a poll of likely voters that finds that Americans give the Supreme Court middling marks. A strong plurality -- 44 percent -- of those surveyed think the court is doing a fair job while 25 percent think it is doing a good job and 19 percent think the justices are doing a poor job. Only 3 percent think the Supreme Court is doing an excellent job. The poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken March 13-14 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.
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Mitt Romney Crushes Rick Santorum in Puerto Rico
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 19, 2012 - 8:06am
Mitt Romney cruised to an easy win in the Puerto Rican Republican presidential primary on Sunday. With 83 percent, Romney easily bested Rick Santorum -- who had spent considerable time on the island-- who placed a very distant second with 8 percent. Newt Gingrich followed with 2 percent and Ron Paul with 1 percent.
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Conservatives Fear Foolhardy Barack Obama Will Release Oil Reserves
March 18, 2012 - 7:00pm
Conservative authorities claim President Barack Obama should not be entertaining ideas of releasing oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
And though the president says hes doing no such thing, a British official with knowledge of the discussion confirmed Obama raised the issue during a broad bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron last week.
In fact, Obama called for that solution as a candidate in 2008 when gasoline prices neared $4 per gallon.
Hey Bill Maher: How About Barack Obama's War on Women?
Submitted by Anonymous on March 17, 2012 - 11:22pm
Potty-mouthed "comedian" Bill Maher may think he's helping his pal Barack Obama by obscenely trashing conservative women, but the economic numbers just aren't working out for the Democratic duo ... or women.
Maher's "jokes" aside, serious sources like the Department of Labor Statistics and the Pew Research Center report:
-- Since Obama took office, the unemployment rate for women has increased from 7 percent to 8.3 percent.
-- During the so-called "recovery," women have gained less than 8 percent of the 1.9 million jobs added (gross).
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Simmons May Move, Bogdanoff Could be Out, in Senate Map
Submitted by Anonymous on March 17, 2012 - 4:51pm
Registration counts could spell doom for Republicans in South Florida, while a pair of Central Florida heavyweights would have to square off unless one moves (as is expected), under the revised Senate map released Saturday.
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Adam Putnam Pushes for Rick Scott to Sign Consumer Bills
Submitted by Anonymous on March 17, 2012 - 4:11pm
In his weekly roundup, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam noted five pieces of legislation that benefit Florida consumers.
Putnam then added, If the governor signs these important pieces of legislation, consumers can expect:
1) The passage of Florida's first energy bill in four years. While a modest step toward Florida's energy future, this policy will diversify Florida's energy portfolio, create jobs, expand energy production and create jobs.
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Florida CFO Jeff Atwater Announces Workers' Comp Arrest
Submitted by Anonymous on March 17, 2012 - 3:54pm
The president of a Panhandle construction company was arrested for falsifying payroll information to avoid workers compensation premiums, following an investigation by the state Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud.
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrest of Randall Morton Seltzer, 43, president of Navarre Industries Inc.
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Senate Releases Amended Redistricting Map
Submitted by Anonymous on March 17, 2012 - 2:14pm
The Senate released an amended map Saturday that leadership believes will meet the constitutional defects found earlier this month by the state Supreme Court.
The districts were redrawn, along with any affected districts, in accordance with constitutional standards as defined by the Supreme Court, stated Senate President-designate Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, the chairman of the Senate Reapportionment Committee, in a release.
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