Sen. Barack Obama isn't just inspiring black voters to register in large numbers as he gets closer to being the Democratic presidential nominee. Evidence indicates that he's motivating some black Republicans to switch parties. ...more

August 22, 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

National Republican Party Chairman Mike Duncan defended John McCain's use of negative advertising in his presidential campaign during a visit to Tampa on Tuesday. ...more

August 6, 2008

Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio has taken a new part-time, non-faculty university job as he winds down his legislative career. ...more

July 26, 2008

Openly frustrated at the heavy news coverage of Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East, the John McCain campaign is responding with a public relations offensive, including a new Web video that accuses television news reporters of being "in the tank" for Obama. ...more

July 23, 2008

In a Republican Party news conference call Friday to introduce a new John McCain campaign video, retired Col. Bud Day, a friend and occasional political spokesman for McCain, said the Iraq war is a repeat of Vietnam, and that Muslims "have said either we kneel or they're going to kill us." ...more

July 19, 2008

Is Florida turning blue? Or just slightly bluish? Or even just a less reddish shade of purple? ...more

July 15, 2008

In new television ads running in Tampa and nationwide, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama talks of learning "values straight from the Kansas heartland" from his mother and grandparents, and boasts that he "passed a law to move people from welfare to work, slashed the rolls by 80 percent." ...more

July 8, 2008

John McCain can read polls as well as anyone, and what he reads might make him nervous. ...more

June 11, 2008

Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that he will seek to restore the full Florida delegation to the Republican National Convention, but "can't dictate" that it will happen. ...more

June 5, 2008