Gov. Charlie Crist's triangulation strategy appears to be working. The Republican-turned-independent leads a three-way U.S. Senate race, according to a Quinnipiac Poll released Friday.
Crist garnered 37 percent, followed by 32 percent for Republican Marco Rubio and 17 percent for Jeff Greene, the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination, according to the latest survey by the Connecticut-based pollster.
If U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek were the Democratic nominee, Crist's lead would be even larger -- 39 to 33 percent for Rubio and 13 percent for Meek.
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A RealtyTrac report shows Florida leading the way in new foreclosure-related filings over the first six months of 2010. Business and political leaders say letting taxes increase in 2011 when benefits expire could worsen foreclosures and kill economic growth.
Asked if the United States might send still more troops to Afghanistan, if the Obama surge is not succeeding by year's end, Vice President Joe Biden answered, "I do not believe so."
Partisan politics are roiling Congress' response to the Gulf oil spill.
A Leon County Circuit judge struck from the November ballot on Thursday a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at exempting Florida from the federal health care overhaul, calling the measure placed by the Republican-ruled Legislature manifestly misleading to voters.
His name is a brief synopsis of the American dream, his life story an aspiration toward it, and he may be one of the chief arbiters of who gets to attempt it in Florida.
Dr. Rudy Moise, one of the leaders in a crowded Democratic primary to take the place of U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, received the backing of Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober on Thursday.
Moise is the outsider in the race, running against a field of officeholders -- which is exactly why Bober was backing him.
It is because of Rudys real-world experience as a doctor, successful businessman, devoted family man and colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve that I wholeheartedly endorse him as my candidate in this race for Congress, said Bober.
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A few hours after former Tallahassee Mayor Scott Maddox --the Democratic candidate in the race for agriculture and consumer services commissioner -- announced the backing of the International Union of Police Associations, Republican rival U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam announced his own law-enforcement endorsement by the Florida State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) for the GOP nod. The group has backed Maddox for the Democratic nod.
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With immigration emerging as one of the chief issues in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination -- and trying to catch up with front-runner Rick Scott -- Attorney General Bill McCollum sponsored a motion at Thursdays Cabinet meeting for state offices to use E-Verify to ensure that no illegal aliens are hired.
