Anyone expecting Florida to swing for Obama after video leaked showing Mitt Romney heaping scorn on the “47 percent” — filmed at the home of a Boca millionaire, no less — obviously doesn’t know the Sunshine State. We live to make national elections exciting!A statewide poll released last night by…
Early this week, Mitt Romney showed up at the Univision event at the University of Miami aimed at Hispanic voters with a suspiciously orange tint to his skin. Some just laughed at his Charlie Crist-like fake tan job, but others accused him wearing “brownface” to appeal to Latinos. Of course,…
Tim Tebow may never be a truly great NFL quarterback, but don’t worry, he might have a back-up career in store: politics.The New York Jets backup QB is now talking openly about a future in elected office, but if he decided to run here in his home state of Florida,…
At this point, Democrats could probably put a glitter covered pinecone with goggly eyes on the ballot and still beat Governor Rick Scott in 2014. Of course, it appears that some goggly eyed pinecones would do better than others. A new Mason-Dixon poll shows that Alex Sink has an 8 point…
We’re getting hit with presidential polls every day now, but every once in a while a little bit of data comes along that perfectly sums up the general mood of this election.A recent poll of likely Florida voters taken by Fox News found that a full 25 percent of Floridians…
So remember when President Obama called into DJ Laz Morning Show last week? Well, according to conservative columnist Clarence McKee that appearance was an “insult” to all of black American that “cheapened the office of president of the United States.” Because, you know, Laz goes by the nickname of “Pimp…
Yesterday’s now infamous leaked video in which Mitt Romney said it was his “job not to worry about those” 47 percent of people who don’t pay income taxes has certainly provided lots of fodder for his enemies. But even Romney supporters ought to be upset. The fact that their nominee…
Mitt Romney is still reeling today from the leaked video showing him hobnobbing wealthy donors with the worst kind of rich guy bashing on the lazy 47 percent. But who was Romney wining and dining with such a cringe-worthy speech?A South Florida millionaire playboy, of course! Turns out he was…
Mitt Romney, the least Hispanic person ever, really, really wishes he was actually Hispanic. Yes, the man who has accidentally quoted Fidel Castro and flubbed Cuban slang for lady parts thinks that if he was of Mexican decent, he’d have an easier time beating Barack Obama…
Saturday Night Live premiered its 38th season over the weekend, and as expected in an election year, kicked the political comedy into overdrive. Aside from the debut of a new Obama impersonator and a riff on Clint Eastwood’s empty chair obsessions, the show got into some Florida specific (well, kinda)…
Despite the fact David Rivera has been continuously under investigation for one thing or another since even before taken his seat in the U.S. House, and despite the fact that there’s now suspicions that Rivera helped run the campaign of an apparent ringer in the Democratic primary in his district,…
For years Republicans have been able to rely on solid support from the majority of Florida’s Cuban community, but one of the few public polls that actually includes figures specifically on Cuban voters says that President Barack Obama actually has a 16-point advantage over Mitt Romney among Florida Cubans…
Obama has opened up leads outside the margin of error in Florida and two other swing states, Ohio and Virginia, at least according to a new poll from NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Marist College. The survey of registered voters in the Sunshine State found Obama with 49…
With rumors swirling that Charlie Crist might run for governor as a Democrat in 2014, many are wondering how a former conservative Republican can run as a Democrat. Others believe he’s a political opportunist who will say and do anything to get elected. Well, Riptide has exclusively uncovered his new…
Earlier this week, we brought to your attention to an odd poll that claimed 61 percent of Democratic voters wanted former Republican Charlie Crist to be the Dem’s gubernatorial candidate in 2014. The numbers seemed way off, and now a new poll is out showing that actually Alex Sink, who…
The fact that President Barack Obama called into the DJ Laz Morning Show this morning to talk with Miami’s favorite Pimp with a Limp, is something we still can’t get our minds around. True, his campaign is focused on getting his message out through nontraditional methods, but, like, the man…
The University of Miami may not be hosting a presidential debate like it did in 2004, but both candidates will be gracing the Coral Gables campus later this month within a day of each other.The dueling duo will be taping separate specials for Univision at the University’s BankUnited Center fieldhouse…
Scott Van Duzer made headlines around the world on Sunday when he lifted President Obama off the ground in a back-cracking bear hug that amazingly didn’t result in a swift Tasering by Secret Service agents.The hug has resulted in Van Duzer’s business becoming the most politically debated pizza shop in…
National polls are showing that President Barack Obama definitely sustained a significant post-convention bounce after last week’s DNC, but what about ol’ Mitt Romney? One would figure that by virtue of hosting the Republican National Convention right here in Florida, that the GOP candidate would at least see some bump…
In an early contender for the campaign trail photo of the year, a power-lifting pizza shop owner in Fort Pierce nearly pulverized President Obama’s ribs yesterday when he stopped in during his bus tour of the Sunshine State. Did we mention the owner is a Republican? Amazingly, the Secret Service…
Should Charlie Crist return to politics as a Democrat his biggest roadblock may be, well, Democratic voters. After all, one would figure that a man who has a pretty solid Republican political history (despite what Tea Partiers might have had you believed) would have a hard time winning in a…
Ana Alliegro, the self-described “Conservative Bad Girl” and a central figure in the latest round of scandal to hit Republican Congressmen David Rivera, has gone missing. Her mother told El Nuevo Herald that she has not heard from her since Wednesday night. Her lawyer also tells the paper that he…
