6:30 a.m.: In the gray of pre-dawn in Lutz, two women stood in line to vote in a presidential election for the first time in their lives -- one because she was finally old enough, the other because she became a U.S. citizen in June. They were separated by about a dozen other voters at the First United Methodist Church. At 6:30 a.m., the line was growing about two to four people a minute. ...more

November 4, 2008

The Supreme Court would not be recommended as the best place in this city to hear a raucous conversation that makes full use of the F-word, the S-word and assorted other vulgarities. ...more

November 4, 2008

About 4.2 million Floridians have already voted in the presidential election, Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning said Monday - but Election Day voters should expect to stand in line anyway. ...more

November 4, 2008

There should be no excuse for not voting in the 2008 presidential election, said Norma Stokes, assistant supervisor at the Highlands County Elections Office. ...more

November 4, 2008

Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86. ...more

November 3, 2008

For the past six weeks, Seminole resident John Piazza said he has had to buy plenty of John McCain signs to replace the ones that have gone missing from his front yard. ...more

November 3, 2008

In 1992's presidential election, I ran into a little problem casting my vote for Ross Perot. ...more

November 3, 2008

People are skittish about the economy's immediate future. Ask how things will be in a year and you hear a different story - and a remarkable show of optimism despite economists' widespread expectations that a serious recession is brewing. ...more

October 24, 2008

Florida's civic health is among the poorest in the country - ranking 47th among the states - though voters in the state do seem energized by the current presidential election, officials said Tuesday. ...more

October 21, 2008

Florida Democrats now have a more than 600,000-person advantage in registered voters over Republicans, nearly double the gap between the two parties' registered voters since the last presidential election. ...more

October 19, 2008