Republicans are coming out in force for early voting. Supervisor of elections' offices around Florida are reporting more than 750,000 absentee and early votes already cast in just the first couple of days, and Republicans have the clear advantage.
The Republican Party of Florida published these numbers today:
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Locked in a furious electoral fight to the finish, Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink have pulled dead even in the race for Florida's governorship, a new Sunshine State News Poll shows.
Mike Prendergast, the Republican candidate challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, unveiled his jobs plan on Thursday.
While he is an underdog, Prendergast, a retired colonel in the Army who served on the staff of former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, has won the backing of prominent national Republicans including former Gov. Jeb Bush and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Prendergast called for reforming jobs programs set up by President Barack Obama's federal stimulus -- a measure which the Republican candidate opposed.
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Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running for the U.S. Senate with no party affiliation, is attacking Republican rival Marco Rubio, the front-runner in the race, for campaigning with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday -- prompting the Rubio team to hit back.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Northern Iowans are Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings fans. This fact could be portentous 16 months from now when the Iowa caucuses occur and Minnesota's two-term governor, Tim Pawlenty, probably will be seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
One of the constant refrains of the so-called mainstream media is that tea party candidates are blithering incompetents and weird wackos. They may do well this year, the refrain goes, but when voters come to their senses, the Republican Party will pay a big price for embracing them.
WASHINGTON -- In an increasingly desperate attempt to develop a narrative for the coming Democratic collapse, the Democrats have indulged themselves in what for half a century they've habitually attributed to the American right -- the paranoid style in American politics. The talk is of dark conspiracies -- secret money, foreign influence, big corporations, with Karl Rove and, yes, Ed Gillespie lurking ominously behind the scenes. The only thing missing is the Halliburton-Cheney angle.
