Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, buoyed by strong support from Christian conservatives, has surged past three of his better-known presidential rivals and is now challenging former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the lead in the Iowa Republican caucuses, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. ...more

November 21, 2007

Republican rivals Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and John McCain sought on Friday to become the favorite of anxious social conservatives, each suggesting he offered the best chance of thwarting abortion rights supporter Rudy Giuliani. ...more

October 20, 2007

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani enter the final months of their parties' presidential primary campaigns as the biggest recipients of Tampa Bay area money. ...more

October 17, 2007

Hillary Rodham Clinton defied the usual slow flow of summer money, tapping 100,000 new donors and outpacing all other presidential candidates in the chase for campaign cash over the past three months. ...more

October 3, 2007

TAMPA - A new poll of likely Republican voters in Florida shows late-entry candidate Fred Thompson within one point of frontrunner Rudy Giuliani in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. ...more

September 20, 2007

Fred Thompson, the attorney turned politician, turned actor, is trying a return to politics via the 2008 presidential race. The former U.S. senator from Tennessee is scheduled to be in West Pasco this Friday evening to attend the annual Pasco Republican Party Reagan Day Dinner. Since by most accounts Thompson is trying to assume the Ronald Reagan mantle, the Reagan Day event is appropriate. ...more

September 12, 2007