Forget Obama. The hot ticket in Miami today is the New York Knicks vs. the Heat.
The NBA-leading Miami heat figure to cool off the Knicks, who have pulled their season record up to .500 on the strength of rookie sensation Jeremy Lin, Spike Lee's favorite team is now just 3 1/2 games behind Atlantic Conference leader Philadelphia.
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After spending Wednesday exchanging fire with GOP primary rival U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, Republican Senate hopeful former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux shifted his focus onto the Democrats on Thursday -- namely President Barack Obama and incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who are campaigning in South Florida on Thursday.
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A new player has entered the Michigan Republican primary battle -- President Barack Obama.
The Democrat incumbent is hitting the airwaves -- and the Republican presidential hopefuls -- in a new ad in Michigan. With Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney in a close battle heading into the Tuesday primary, Obama takes jabs at both of the Republican hopefuls -- but Romney draws a little more fire as the ad includes a quote from Romney reading let Detroit go bankrupt. Romney generally does better against Obama than Santorum in general election match-ups.
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With the Michigan Republican presidential primary looming on Tuesday, a poll unveiled on Thursday finds Rick Santorum with a small lead over Mitt Romney in the Great Lakes State.
Santorum leads the American Research Group poll of likely primary voters with 38 percent followed by Romney with 34 percent. Ron Paul places third with 12 percent, while Newt Gingrich lags in single digits with 7 percent. The race is still up for grabs, as 8 percent are undecided while 1 percent back other candidates
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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum unleashed a new ad attacking GOP rival Mitt Romney on Thursday. The ad features a host of quotes from Romney in which the former governor of Massachusetts said he would support legalized abortion and opposed the NRA on gun control. Santorum is contrasted with Romney as a trusted conservative.
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Republican National Committee Co-Chair Sharon Day "welcomed" Barack Obama to South Florida Thursday with the following statement:
President Obama promised to be a leader on energy policy when he was campaigning in 2008, but gas prices have skyrocketed since hes been in office, with most Floridians paying well above the national average.
"Whether its gas prices or the economy, President Obama has repeatedly failed to keep the promises he made to voters in 2008 and we are all paying because he hasnt lived up to them.
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The Senate unanimously supported a resolution, sponsored by Sen. Stephen Wise, R-Jacksonville, to Clay County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Detective David White, who was killed during a gunfight Feb. 16 in Middleburg.
White, a nine-year veteran, was investigating a tip about a meth lab at a home, according to the Florida Times-Union.
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A national poll released by Quinnipiac University on Thursday finds that Americans are feeling better about the economy, but that shift in thinking is doing little to improve President Barack Obamas chances for a second term in November.
As Barack Obama prepared to deliver an energy speech in Miami on Thursday, Republicans posted a video on the president's energy policies.
Backed by a soundtrack of Obama singing an Al Green song, the video shows the effects of the president's energy program -- namely, gasoline prices that have jumped from $1.85 to $3.59 in the past three years.
View the video here.
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A national poll released by Quinnipiac University on Thursday finds that Americans are feeling better about the economy -- but that shift in thinking is doing little to improve Democrat incumbent President Barack Obamas chances for a second term in November.
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