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Meek and Clinton

Will Meek Make It?

By | 08.27.10 | 4:45 am

Days before Florida’s primary, President Obama finally did what Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D-Fla.) supporters had been begging him to do for some time: He showed up in the Sunshine State and referred to Meek as “the next senator from the state of Florida.”

[Congress1] But the in-person endorsement came More…

Florida Dems Debate; Party Heavyweights Raise Money for Crist

By | 08.11.10 | 9:32 am

As Florida Democratic Senate candidates Rep. Kendrick Meek and billionaire businessman Jeff Greene slugged it out in their only statewide televised debate last night, key Democrats prepared for a fundraiser tonight in Washington that will benefit former Florida Republican governor, now independent senatorial candidate, Charlie Crist.

Nervous Dems Give Obama Stupid & Redundant Advice

By | 09.15.08 | 8:37 am

If it’s September in an election year, it’s a Democratic media train wreck.

No matter how the Democrats are doing, it seems, their top strategists and party elders spend September publicly “worrying” that they look weak — which is weak. Or they lament how their party lost its message More…