Chutzpah is such a wonderful thing, especially if you are a politician, when your plate overflows with the stuff. ...more

May 21, 2008

Barack Obama will return to the Tampa Bay area Wednesday with a wary eye on whether to contest a state he spurned and which, in recent electoral history, has tilted Republican. ...more

May 18, 2008

Florida now has more Hispanic voters registered Democratic than Republican. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA - Florida now has more Hispanic voters registered as Democrats than Republicans. The difference is small – less than a percentage point. But it reflects a long-term demographic shift that could benefit Democrats: the increasing dominance of non-Cubans, particularly Puerto Ricans, among Floridians of Hispanic descent. ...more

May 9, 2008

Sen. Mel Martinez has surpassed $3 million raised for his campaign war chest since taking office, well ahead of the pace of most other U.S. senators whose current terms also expire in 2010, new campaign finance reports show. ...more

February 11, 2008

Florida Democrats say they have no plans to take a second swipe at holding a presidential selection process so that delegates from the state might be seated at the party's presidential nominating convention. ...more

February 7, 2008

Don't know about you, but it's only Wednesday and I'm about supered out. This was one of those strange, harmonic convergence weeks when two "supers" collided, not an easy thing for mere mortals to deal with. ...more

February 6, 2008

Polls Open 7 a.m. To 7 p.m. ...more

January 29, 2008

He's back wagging his finger again, reminding everyone of the last time he wagged his finger and expected us to believe him. ...more

January 29, 2008

In the tumultuous days following the 2000 presidential election, Democrats and civil rights activists descended on Florida, accusing the state of disenfranchising voters and failing to count every vote. They accused the Sunshine State of being just one step away from Jim Crow. ...more

January 27, 2008