A veteran Hillsborough County Republican Party official resigned Thursday after forwarding a racially tinged e-mail to a handful of friends that was leaked to others in the party and became public. ...more

February 6, 2009

Carol Carter, a veteran official of the Hillsborough County Republican Party, is resigning her post as result of a flap over a seemingly racist email joke she forwarded to friends. Carter is the third prominent local Republican in four months to be stung by controversy over emails with racial overtones. ...more

February 5, 2009

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The chairman of the Republican Party in New Mexico's most populous county resigned Thursday, nearly a week after saying "Hispanics consider themselves above blacks" and won't vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. ...more

September 25, 2008

Some viewers of the scaled-down Republican National Convention might be asking themselves, "What's the point?" Florida's delegation leaders Monday were trying to answer, "Who's the point?" ...more

September 2, 2008

John McCain became the Republican presidential front-runner, and Florida homeowners got a smidgen of property tax relief, but the big winner in Tuesday's Florida primary may have been Gov. Charlie Crist. ...more

January 31, 2008

After the startling results of the Iowa caucuses, Florida's Jan. 29 presidential primary looms as possibly the most decisive event of the primary season. ...more

January 5, 2008

New Hampshire has become the hot spot for action in the Republican presidential race, as Iowa is for Democrats. ...more

December 10, 2007