Just after 8 p.m, the mood at the Ren a Venue, an event space in the Sunset Strip Plaza in Kendall hosting Carlos Curbelo’s election-night watch party, didn’t feel particularly celebratory. Fifty or so well-dressed supporters milled around, and “Sweet Home Alabama” blared over a loudspeaker, but the room was…
There’s a meme that’s been going strong on Reddit’s Florida page all summer. It shows Rick Scott and Charlie Crist side-by-side with the caption “Giant Douche Versus Turd Sandwich.” That South Park reference seemed to resonate especially in Democrat-rich South Florida. As Riptide noted yesterday, local Facebook feeds and Twitter…
With some races expected to be agonizingly tight, tonight’s election results may get sweaty. So please feel free to keep an electric fan pointed at you at all times. Its not against the rules. As always, we’ll fill in the results of the most notable elections up top as they…
Charlie Crist may have publicly hugged Barack Obama back when he was a Republican, but the president has been nowhere to be seen during Crist’s election bid as a Democrat. Many speculate that’s because Crist didn’t want to be tied to Washington politics and Obama’s somewhat falling popularity. Well, Obama…
Rick Scott and Charlie Crist, AKA Lord Voldemort and the sleaziest used-car salesman you ever met, may not be the most inspiring candidates ever, but that’s not an excuse not to vote today. Of course, Facebook and Twitter and all of that are full of people proudly proclaiming they’ve voted,…
Just in case you weren’t convinced by the past six months of polls showing the Charlie Crist/Rick Scott race is barreling toward a razor-thin, Bush-vs.-Gore-esque, last-minute photo finish tomorrow, a new set of polls is out this morning to confirm that, yup, this thing is way too close to call…
Let’s be honest: Florida is to fair and well-run polling as Kanye West is to humble and modest self-image. We’re just not very good at it. You don’t even have to go back to the Dubya-crowning recount debacle for evidence of Sunshine State voting ineptitude. Just transport yourself back to…
H. Gary Morse, Florida’s most powerful developer, died Wednesday night at the age of 77. Morse didn’t upend existing cities and build shiny new luxury towers along their coasts. Instead he created and kept careful control over his own make-shift city, populated mostly by people over the age of 55…
So many recent polls have shown Charlie Crist and Gov. Rick Scott in a dead heat that state election officials actually went on record this week worrying about what might happen if a recount was needed to break a statistical tie. This race is damned close. But a new poll…
Usually a high-profile politician coming out against your opponent is a good thing. Unless you’re Democrat Charlie Crist, and the guy attacking your opponent is Ralph Nader. Because, as we found out here in Florida back in 2000, left-leaning people who listen to Ralph Nader don’t necessarily vote for Democrats…
In daily newspaper conference rooms across the state, editorial writers in shirts and ties or conservative dresses have been meeting every candidate for public office and carefully scrutinizing their records, all so they can offer readers a sober, reasoned recommendation about who deserves their vote November 4. That seems like…
Municipal politics in Miami-Dade are officially non-partisan, but most local pol’s private party affiliations are well known and it’s becoming more and more common for the local Democratic and Republican parties to get involved. Just this summer, the Miami-Dade Dems helped Daniella Levine Cava beat Republican Lynda Bell in a…
Could a fan make the difference in the incredibly tight governor’s race? A new poll seems to think so. Gravis Marketing reports that Charlie Crist is up 44 percent to Rick Scott’s 42. The poll also specifically asked previously undecided voters who watched the debate whether #Fangate played a role…
Frank Bocanegra, an attorney and former Miami-Dade Police officer, is running for county court judge on the November 4 ballot based largely on his three-decade career in law enforcement and his role as a former city manager of Miami Lakes. “I… truly believe that hard work and unrelenting professionalism are…
If you see someone holding a handmade sign at a political rally you usually assume that person took the time to actually make that sign themselves and brought it along. But it seems that either Scott’s biggest fans all either had the same exact strike of sign-making genius, or someone…
Florida has one of the nation’s strictest open records laws, but Gov. Rick Scott doesn’t seem to take much pride over his state’s achievement. In fact, according to an ongoing lawsuit, Scott openly flaunted those rules by setting up a Gmail account for secretly doing much of his official business…
How tight can a governor’s race get? Tighter than Rick Scott’s terrifying debate smile? Tighter than Charlie Crist’s artificially orange skin? Yep, that’s how tight the race for the Florida governor’s mansion has gotten, according to a pair of new polls. The fresh Quinnipiac and Rasmussen polls both show the…
Florida’s billionaire Gov. Rick Scott paid for his first campaign out of his own incredibly deep pockets. This time around, he promised to fund his reelection efforts through more traditional means, but as Charlie Crist’s camp has seen an incredible last-minute fundraising surge, Scott has changed his mind. He’s writing…
After the bizarre #Fangate moment during last week’s gubernatorial debate between Rick Scott and Charlie Crist, don’t expect any similar shenanigans tonight. CNN is hosting the event, and they run a tight ship. The 24-hour news channel has explicitly banned fans from the podium. Oddly, they’ve also banned other media…
For all the Colbert and Daily Show hilarity and the week’s worth of Twitter hot takes, did Fangate actually matter in the race to decide who will be Florida’s next governor? Not according to a new poll out this morning. The Republican-leaning 0ptimus firm finds the two candidates virtually tied…
Almost as soon as #fangate went down, people were already tweeting, “Well, The Daily Show ought to have a field day with that.” Naturally, last night’s comedy shows couldn’t help but take on Rick Scott and Charlie Crist’s bizarre debate tiff over an electric fan. In fact, Jon Stewart decided…
When Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado pitched voters this summer on developer Jeff Berkowitz’s eye-opening plan to erect a gigantic paperclip on the bayfront, he repeatedly made a simple promise in ads: “Taxpayers win without putting in a cent.” It remains to be seen if anyone will win with the massive…
