Mitt Romney had binders full of women. The Florida GOP might have had golf carts full of hookers.Rumors of a strange “men’s only” trip to the Bahamas, meant as a thank you to some of the Republican Party of Florida’s biggest donors, have been swirling for years, but new details…
Love it or leave it.It appears there are at least a few thousand Floridians out there who hate the United States of America so much in the wake of Obama’s reelection that they want to pull Florida out of the Union…
Not only did Floridians vote to reelect President Obama on Tuesday, they also, by a wider margin, voted down a proposed state constitutional amendment that sought, in theory at least, to limit the effects of Obamacare in Florida.Dejected, Rick Scott, the former health care CEO, is now backing down on…
“There are a million arguments as to why Mitt Romney lost the election…,” writes Luis Gonzalez over at Miami’s favorite right wing blog, Babalu Blog.Well, you could certainly say that.”But everything boils down to one simple fact…,” he continues.Uh, huh, and what would that be exactly? “We have become a…
Despite winning the majority of white voters, the Republican Party had their asses handed to them by minority voters last Tuesday. The beat-down has left the GOP in a race to figure out how, at the very least, to get more of the Hispanic vote.Bill O’Reilly has a novel idea…
Facing criticism that his voter reforms and refusal to extend early voting hours lead to Florida’s election debacle on Tuesday, Rick Scott told a radio station today, “Well, I’m very comfortable that the right thing happened.”Hmm, let’s just check the definitions of “right” from Merriam-Webster…
I think the real problem with the GOP right now is that they just don’t have enough Bushes ready to run for president. Think about it. The Republican party has not won the Presidency unless a Bush was running since 1984. That’s almost 30 years!Well, don’t worry GOPers, your Bush…
Some votes are still being counted in Florida, but you can finally color in the state with the faintest shade of light blue. Mitt Romney’s campaign has just released a statement finally acknowledging that they’ve lost Florida…
Here in Florida we still haven’t decided who we’re going to award our 29 electoral votes too, and unlike 2000 it doesn’t matter one bit.”For once, Florida’s clusterfucker is irrelevant,” declared Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. “It’s like hearing, ‘Good news America, the tumor on your dong is benign.'”Dong…
Conventional wisdom would have it that Rep. David Rivera’s nearly 11-point loss to Democratic challenger Joe Garcia might have had something to do with all those scandals Rivera currently finds himself embroiled in. Rivera however was never much for conventional wisdom. He maintains that changing demographics and voter turnout were…
For decades Cuban-Americans have been one of the Republican party’s most reliable bases in Florida. Well, maybe not anymore. Some exit poll analysis suggests that Barack Obama actually outperformed Mitt Romney among Cubans in Florida. While others don’t show him quite pulling off that historic demographic upset, they do paint…
It shouldn’t be this hard. Really! Voters fill in a little bubble showing who they’d like for president. Elections machines tally them up. And whichever guy gets the most votes wins the state. Everywhere else in America, this simple process works just fine.But this is Miami, where two days after…
Last night, Senator Bill Nelson cruised to an easier than expected reelection, and, because Marco Rubio has some decency, Florida’s junior senator took to Facebook to congratulate Florida’s senior senator. However, a lot of Rubio’s Facebook fans were just not having it…
Miami’s own SNL star turned Tea Party Queen Victoria Jackson is not having a good day. After all, a communist remains in the White House. While it may not have been quite as ridiculous as Donald Trump’s now infamous Twitter meltdown, Jackson vented her emotions on social media and proclaimed…
It appears that Connie Mack IV won’t even get to return to D.C. as a member of the House spouse’s club. His wife, Mary Bono Mack, served in a House district representing Palm Springs, California, and after coming up short in the early vote tally, local media is now painting…
WSVN has some rather ambitious coverage of the election last night for a local channel. They even sent reporter Blake Burman to the Obama rally in Chicago. Unfortunately there was a bit of awkwardness when WSVN cut to Burman solely because he was standing in the vicinity of a famous…
Things just got a little tougher for Rick Scott and the Republican legislature to pass just about anything they want, as Democrats made small but significant gains in the Florida House last night. The Dems effectively ended the Republican’s supermajority in the body, and may have knocked off Rep. Chris…
All around this great country, voters woke up this morning celebrating their state’s support for Barack Obama or reveling in their red-state backing of Mitt Romney. In Florida, we woke up groggy, confused and more than a little pissed about the seven hours we waited in line. The presidential election…
Unless you’re stuck in some Jack McKeon-like time warp in which Twitter relies on actual messenger pigeons, you’ve probably heard by now that Barack Obama punched yesterday’s election in the crotch. And unless your name is Mitt Romney and you’ve permanently foregone alcohol and caffeine, your brain is probably a…
As Florida vote counting goes to the wire tonight, what is clear is that this state — and this city — remains bitterly divided.That divide was apparent at two locations just blocks apart in Little Havana: there was elation at Obama campaign headquarters on SW 1st Street as a small…
After months of vague polls never-ending political ads, traffic backups caused by campaign stops, and being annoyed by your family members on Facebook, election day is finally here, and Riptide is here to guide you through the results. Of course we’ll be paying attention to the Presidential race, but we’ll…
Inside a packed conference room at the Doubletree by Hilton near the airport, Ben Powell, chairman of Miami-Dade Republican Party, leaned into his mic and bellowed, “Are y’all ready for victory?” The crowd of about 200 Romney supporters let out a boisterous cheer.Even as returns are showing Obama clinging to…
