Wednesday on MSNBC’s Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton, state Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, revived his defense of the controversial voting law he sponsored last session by saying that the new law was a way of ensuring that Floridians do not register fictitious characters such as “Mickey Mouse” to vote,
Amid reports that Bill Clinton tried to get Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) to drop his bid for the Senate, the real loser may be the Democrats’ other statewide candidate: gubernatorial hopeful Alex Sink.
Sink, who is in a very tight race with Republican Rick Scott — polls show her More…
Political ad spending on races across the country is shooting way up for a host of reasons, but one of them likely has to do with the start of early voting in many states:
The proliferation of absentee balloting and in-person early voting, which hit a high-water mark of
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott strategist Tony Fabrizio blasted out an optimistic memo to the St. Petersburg Times predicting record turnout for the former health care executive running for the Republican nomination for governor:
With all eyes trained on the elections today in Colorado (and to a lesser extent those in Connecticut, Georgia, and Minnesota), the start of early voting in Florida’s primary yesterday took place amidst little fanfare.
But the time between today and August 24, the date of Florida’s primary, will More…
One out of every five voters in New Mexico, most of them Democrats, have already cast ballots for the Nov. 4 election, reports New Mexico Independent.
In Iowa, more than 10 percent of the electorate has voted, with 88,000 more Democrats than Republicans casting early ballots.
Announcing a presidential poll that actually matters!
Unlike hypothetical polling — Who might you vote for in three months? — the launch of early voting means pollsters can survey which candidate is actually stacking up more ballots. Sen. Barack Obama has the early lead.
We read lots of emails from the presidential campaigns around here, but sometimes the most interesting ones say nothing at all.
Bill Burton, chief spokesperson of the Obama campaign, just forwarded national reporters an AP article, with no additional comment, that he thinks speaks for itself:
Sen. Barack Obama is off the campaign trail, but his top aides are running hard today.
Obama’s senior strategists held a national news conference by telephone today, bullishly arguing that the campaign is on offense and surging in red states, while Sen. John McCain is scampering to Pennsylvania for an More…
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