In a window at Atwater's Cafeteria, a soul food restaurant on the city's predominantly black south side, there are campaign signs for both of the candidates competing in this week's mayoral race. ...more

November 1, 2009

Rival candidates Bill Foster and Kathleen Ford are both white former city council members who work as lawyers. The similarities end there. ...more

October 30, 2009

How many times last week did you hear something along the lines of, "It's only politics as usual in Chicago"? ...more

December 14, 2008

Florida Democrats hope for more than just one of their own in the White House as result of Tuesday's election; they also hope for a step toward regaining the influence in Florida politics they almost completely lost in the 1990s. ...more

November 2, 2008

In studying the presidential polls for this battleground state, former Florida Gov. Bob Martinez recalls the day Republican Sen. John McCain's campaign began its stunning, discouraging decline. ...more

October 19, 2008

In national politics, the Kennedys and the Bushes are America's first families. In Florida politics, Ben Hill Griffin and his grandchildren take that title. ...more

October 12, 2008

Hillsborough County is often labeled the bellwether of Florida politics. As Hillsborough goes, so goes Florida, observes Susan MacManus, a University of South Florida political scientist. ...more

August 11, 2008

Tim Russert had an interest in Florida politics that led him to come here frequently as a debate moderator in important state races - and on occasion even made him an issue in those races. ...more

June 14, 2008

Tim Russert had an interest in Florida politics that led him to come here frequently as a debate moderator in important state races - and on occasion even made him an issue in those races. Several of those debates were in Tampa under the auspices of WFLA-TV. ...more

June 13, 2008

hard as it may be, for this involves the parallel universe of Tallahassee - to imagine this scenario. ...more

January 10, 2008