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The new Quinnipiac Poll suggests that conservative U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is making gains in Florida. The new results among GOP primary voters, with trend lines:
Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) – 50 (-5)
Marco Rubio – 35 (+9)

Marc Caputo reports on the rumors of a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored poll in Florida that shows Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) slipping below the 50 percent line in his primary with former state Speaker of the House Marco Rubio. The rumored poll numbers, which differ by only “one or two points” among Caputo’s sources: Crist 44, [...]

This Sun-Sentinel video of Florida Republicans at a firing range pretty much speaks for itself. But did Robert Lowry, the Republican challenging Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), really need to have the letters “DWS” next to the silhouetted head of his target?
h/t: The Hill.

Immigration advocates are wondering what the newly chosen Florida senator-to-be, George LeMieux (R), is going to mean for their campaign for immigration reform — as well as how the pick could influence how the growing number of Latino voters view the Republican Party.
Harsh questioning by Republicans of then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, confirmed earlier this [...]

Short answer: Hard to say.
Long answer: Retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) has been a moderate voice on environmental policy — he voted for cloture on the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade bill last year — and his departure could deprive Democrats of one of their few potential Republican allies on this issue. Odds are that the environmentally friendly [...]

Marco Rubio, the conservative underdog in the 2010 GOP primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, tells CNN that Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) made a “disappointing pick” when he appointed his friend and adviser George LeMieux to the seat.
George LeMieux is a talented political operative and the governor’s best friend, but that doesn’t make him the [...]

From the St. Petersburg Times:
Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to turn to his political shadow and former chief of staff, George LeMieux, to stand in as Florida’s U.S. senator until Crist can win the seat himself in the 2010 election.
The governor’s office will announce the decision at 11:15 a.m. today in Tallahassee. Crist has said [...]

He’s made the cover of National Review. Why worry about that? Well …

A new Rasmussen Reports poll on the 2010 Republican primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat finds Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) leading former state House Speaker Marco Rubio among likely GOP primary voters by a margin of 53 percent to 31 percent. Eric Kleefeld reads this as a failure of Rubio’s attempt to “capitalize on Crist’s [...]

Saying that he can’t support the health reform bill working its way through the House, Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.), a member of the conservative-leaning Blue Dog Democrats, told a town hall gathering yesterday that he supports scrapping the overhaul proposal in favor of more gradual reforms. From CNN:
When a questioner, Ray Evans, said he believed [...]