Republican Chris Christie has defeated Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey. ...more

November 3, 2009

9:13 p.m. A spokesman for Gov. Charlie Crist said he had no knowledge of the governor returning to Tallahassee tonight - contrary to a tip from the chairman of the Pinellas County GOP. ...more

November 4, 2008

8:15 p.m.: A top Pinellas County Republican says Governor Charlie Crist has changed plans and is not going to show up at the Hilton Carillon Park hotel tonight for the Pinellas County Republican Victory Party. ...more

November 4, 2008

"Florida, are you ready to hire us?" Sarah Palin shouted at the crowd. ...more

November 1, 2008

STUMPING IN THE BAY AREA With early voting in Florida under way and the presidential election only nine days off Election Day only less than two weeks off, candidates and their surrogates are expected to make multiple visits here. Visits currently scheduled in or near the Tampa Bay area include are: ...more

October 25, 2008

With early voting in Florida under way and Election Day less than two weeks off, candidates and their surrogates are expected to make multiple visits to the Tampa Bay area, part of the Interstate 4 corridor swing area that could decide the outcome of the state race. The visits currently scheduled are: ...more

October 25, 2008

Democrats messed up. Republicans were robbed. It took a special House committee more than a year of investigating, at a cost of $500,000, to validate GOP claims that majority Democrats made the wrong call on a contested vote during one late night in the summer of 2007. The dispute fed into the ongoing highly partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill. ...more

September 26, 2008

If John McCain becomes president, he will be confronted by a Congress with significantly larger Democratic majorities than today's - majorities furious about high hopes dashed by an eighth Republican victory in 11 presidential elections. And if the normal pattern of off-year elections obtains in 2010, those majorities will expand. So McCain would have to deal with a hostile legislature for four years, as Arnold Schwarzenegger has done for almost five years. For that reason, and because these two self-styled post-partisan, reach-across-the-aisle mavericks admire one another - McCain has given Schwarzenegger a starring role Monday at the Republican convention - it is pertinent to survey Schwarzenegger's governorship of one-eighth of America's population. ...more

August 31, 2008

Playing Limbaugh's Game Regarding "Delegate Seating Battle Back In Court" (front page, May 23): ...more

May 30, 2008