With a week to go before the presidential election, Florida is by far the largest swing state still up for grabs. A new CNN poll this morning finds Romney and Obama in a virtual tie for the Sunshine State’s 29 electoral votes. So who in Florida will break the deadlock…
Despite an Everest-sized mountain of evidence that Rep. David Rivera orchestrated a sham campaign by an unknown candidate in the Democratic primary, the incumbent has steadfastly denied knowing anything about the case. Rivera also denies being under federal investigation even though multiple sources tell the Miami Herald otherwise.Don’t expect any…
Here’s everything you need to know about partisan politics in Miami-Dade in a nutshell: According to a Miami Herald poll, President Barack leads or is tied in just about every demographic group in the county except Cubans. Mitt Romney has opened a massive 76 percent to 19 percent lead among…
Marco Rubio was campaigning with Mitt Romney in Central Florida on Saturday when he got the call that every parent fears: his 12-year-old daughter Amanda had been airlifted to Miami Children’s Hospital after being involved in a golf cart accident.Luckily, Amanda has now been released from the hospital, and is…
Poor Rep. Connie Mack IV. He’s trying his damnedest to turn the fact that he shares his name with his ex-senator dad into a Senate career of his own, but the latest polls show him trailing boring old incumbent Bill Nelson by anywhere from 5 to 8 points (a practical…
Things just keep getting worse for Rep. David Rivera. According to The New York Times, powers that be in his own party are pressuring the congressman to resign just days before early voting begins. Marco Rubio apparently has even been asked to intervene and talk some sense to his friend…
We’re not sure how much newspaper endorsements even matter anymore, but The Sun-Sentinel dropped a bomb this morning by endorsing Mitt Romney. This comes after years of endorsing the Democratic presidential candidate, and despite the fact the paper serves Broward County, the most solidly Democratic big county in the state…
Miami-Dade voters have been inundated with political ads for going on six months now, but among the most visible — and probably the most risible — are the billboards all over I-95 and now the full-page Miami Herald ads showing Obama bowing to a Saudi sheik and blaming the Prez…
For a while it seemed like GOP Rep. David Rivera may as well have been named Teflon Dave. No matter what accusations were flung at him, nothing stuck.Now, it looks like he’s running out of luck. The Florida Commission on Ethics has found that Rivera broke state laws by failing…
So remember when Mitt Romney showed up at the University of Miami looking a little brown around the face? A make-up artist ended up taking the blame, saying that he used a bit of MAC foundation that was too dark on the candidate.Well, sources who spoke to BuzzFeed says there’s…
Just under one million Floridians have already cast their ballots in the presidential elections, and the number is closing in on the 10 percent total mark of all Florida registered voters. So far, though, Republicans have turned in more absentee ballots than Democrats, but their absentee advantage is significantly down…
As per usual, Florida could play a decisive role in the upcoming presidential election, and at least Conan O’Brien thinks Floridians and Floridians alone can be trusted with deciding the fate of the White House for the next four years. Because, after all, this state is nothing but “a shining…
Last night’s debate was what political experts call a “turd sandwich.” Barack Obama and Mitt Romney provided 90 minutes of crap, and moderator Bob Schieffer happily mashed it all together between the blandest, stalest, white-bread questions he could find.Obama supporters will say their man won the debate (which is true),…
As most South Florida neighborhoods have sprouted unseemly subdivisions like toadstools in the shade, the Village of Palmetto Bay has remained a sleepy, middle-class enclave.That could all change on November 6, however, when residents go to the polls. Up for a vote: two spots on the City Council and an…
Meat had not passed the lips of Jacksonville City Council member Don Redman for thirty-five years. That’s not even a euphemism. Dude has been a solid vegetarian for three-and-a-half decades. Proving, however, that not all vegetarians are bleeding heart hippies, he decided to break his long-standing no meat policy by…
In 2008, the editorial boards of Florida’s four biggest newspapers all through their support behind President Obama. Well, in the past two days, the state’s two biggest papers offered their endorsements. The Saint Pete Times is sticking with President Obama in an endorsement that highlights his economic successes. In contrast,…
“Vote early, vote often” is such an infamous political quip indicating voter fraud that it literally has its own Wikipedia page. So, it doesn’t look good that the Florida AFL-CIO’s website proclaimed that their mantra is to “vote early, vote often.”…
For more than a year, Mitt Romney has jetted across the country, calling Barack Obama an utter failure. The president has done his fair share of name-calling too, but it wasn’t until two weeks ago that he had a chance to stand up to his challenger in person. Instead of…
We all know Obama hates the 1 percent, and Romney could care less about the 47 percent, but the cold hard truth is that neither campaign has done anything to gain support from the 24.6 percent. Yes, we’re talking about the 24.6 percent under the legal age to vote. America’s…
A new poll released this morning insinuated that President Obama was losing ground to Mitt Romney among Florida’s Latino voters, and apparently Romney staffers have a theory why: Obama doesn’t have enough “macho bravado” for Latinos. …
If Barack Obama wants to win Florida and nab its vital 29 electoral votes, he’s got some big-time work to do at tomorrow’s debate. Two new polls out today find not only that Mitt Romney has gained five points in Florida since dominating in the first debate, but more worryingly for…
For the past few months, most electoral maps have painted Florida a faint shade of blue, but ever since last week’s debate Mitt Romney has made a comeback in Florida and turned our peninsula into a speculative shade of light red…
