Mitt Romney and Herman Cain Lead the GOP Pack in Florida
A Florida poll released late on Thursday by SurveyUSA for WFLA-TV in Tampa found that former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts led the Republican presidential candidates in the Sunshine State with businessman Herman Cain, who won the Presidency 5 straw poll in Orlando last week, right on his heels.
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Senate Hopeful Adam Hasner Gets Backing of Major Conservative Group
On Friday, former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, now running in a crowded Republican primary to take on Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, announced that he had won the backing of one of the most prominent social and religious conservative organizations in the country -- the Family Research Council (FRC) Action PAC.
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Four GOP Chairs Condemn Early Primary Move for Florida
With Florida poised to select Jan. 31 for its primary date, the chairs of the Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina Republican parties have issued a joint statement declaring they will move up their primary and caucus dates if necessary.
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Claude Kirk to Lie in State Friday in the Old Capitol
Former Gov. Claude Kirk, who died at his West Palm Beach home on Wednesday, will lie in state Friday from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. in the Old Capitol in Tallahassee.
Kirk, 85, was Floridas first Republican governor since Reconstruction, serving from 1967 to 1971.
A processional, with Kirks family accompanying his body, is scheduled to arrive at 12:30 p.m. on the East Portico of the Old Capitol.
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Teen Abortion, Gun-Control Laws Taking Effect Saturday
Dean Cannon says House to Join Appeal of Fair Districts
House Speaker Dean Cannon said the House has joined the appeal of a trial court's ruling that rejected the challenge to the Fair Districts' Amendment 6 by U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami.
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Land Without Peace: Why Abbas Went to the U.N.
WASHINGTON -- While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attempt to get the U.N. to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state has elicited widespread sympathy.
