President Barack Obama is playing a bit of divide and conquer this week, pitting his Republican critics in Washington against GOP governors and mayors eager for the federal money that his hard-fought stimulus plan will bring. Next on the list of Republican notables to embrace the president is California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is to join Obama at a town hall meeting Thursday in Los Angeles. ...more

March 19, 2009

Republicans gathered last week to talk about what went wrong in the Nov. 4 election and how to fix it, and the two highest-profile leaders - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin - offered sharply different recipes for a comeback. ...more

November 16, 2008

In the early stages of a presidential battle between opponents who are less dissimilar than either campaign would eagerly confess, one line of demarcation interesting to Floridians emerged recently: The opinion gap puts much of Florida's Republican-led Legislature and all of its Pasco delegation in the camp of - gulp - presumptive Democrat nominee Barack Obama. ...more

June 19, 2008