The picture of the 2010 races aren’t even in perfect focus yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early for a poll. Mason-Dixon unleashed their first poll post-Crist-for-Senate announcement, and things don’t look too good for the Democrats. In the Senate race Charlie Crist (with a 49% favorable rating) crushes his primary competition Marco Rubio…
Sometime there’s benefits to running for office even if you have a snowballs chance of winning. Take Annette Taddeo for example. The self made Colombian-American millionaire ran against popular incumbent Ileana Ros-Lehtnin for Congress last Fall. Though, she ran a surprisingly strong and respectable campaign that gave her a foot…
As expected, Attorney General Bill McCollu m officially entered the governor’s race this morning. This is, as the Democrats were so quick to point out, McCollum’s 14th race for public office in his lifetime, including two failed senate bids. So he’s no stranger to the Florida electorate. Though, his role as…
Good news for Charlie Crist, bumbling GOP chairman Michael Steele isn’t lining up behind his bid for U.S. Senate just yet. Despite the rare early pre-primary endorsement Crist picked up from the NRSC, while on Meet the Press yesterday with Democrat chairman Tim Kaine he stated that the full force…
Everyone loves wondering what Mayor Manny Diaz is going to do next after his reign is up later this year. Apparently, the latest murmur is that he should run for CFO. Which, like him or not makes sense. One of his crowning achievements was turning the City of Miami from a bankrupt, junk…
So after the NRSC endorsed Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio in the Republican Senate primary, a lot of people implied it was a snub to Hispanics. We thought this was silly. Crist has won three statewide campaigns in a row, is an extremely popular governor, and has a national profile…
So the game of political musical chairs continues. The Orlando Sentinel says current senate President Jeff Atwater is going to throw his hat into the CFO ring on Tuesday. Atwater, a Republican from North Palm Beach, served in the state house from 2001-2003 and has been in the senate since then…
To most of Florida Lt. Gov Jeff Kottkamp is known for precisely two things: his string of travel scandals and his mustache. Now he’d like to be known as our Attorney General as well. The Republican from SW Florida was picked as Crist’s running mate to bring a conservative balance to Crist’s…
According to Naked Politics, Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum will officially enter the Governor’s race on Monday in Orlando. McCollum spent 20 years in the US House. A career that included a number of high profile leadership and chairmen positions. He tried to run for Senate in 2000, but lost in…
It is an open secret amongst the Florida political establishment that Gov. Charlie Crist has a penchant for tanning. While the mainstream press often shies away from openly discussing the issue, Crist’s hidden tanning habit is explored in detail in Kirby Dick’s new movie Outrage: The Hidden Story of America’s…
In light of some of the GOP’s other recent decisions, it’s hard to find fault with the NRSC’s early endorsement of Charlie Crist in the Republican primary for Florida’s open senate seat. It may be the smartest move the national party has made in some time, but that doesn’t mean people…
The unfortunate working assumption amongst just about everyone right now is that Dan Gelber or Kendrick Meek is going to lose to Charlie Crist in 2010. The only question is “which one?”Naked Politics is reporting that the Democratic National Senatorial Committee is whispering in Gelber’s ear that he should drop…
Beggars can’t be choosers, and the Republican party is basically sitting on the side of the road right now wearing tattered Reagan campaign shirts, tinfoil hats, and talking crazy nonsense begging for relevance and maybe some pocket change. So the National Republican Senatorial Campaign’s early endorsement of Charlie Crist and the…
Well, that didn’t take long at all. Just over 24 hours after Charlie Crist announced he will not seek re-election, and instead concentrate on his Senate bid, Florida’s CFO Alex Sink has officially announced her intentions to run for Governor. Sink, one of only two democrats to hold state-wide elected office,…
Those who have been following Florida politics aren’t in for any major surprise, but it is still exciting to see it play out nonetheless. Naked Politics reports that a source tells them CFO Alex Sink, a Democrat, is expected to announce her entrance into the now open Governor’s race before…
So, um, yeah, a movement to draft Jeb Bush to again run for governor in 2010 is actually happening. As many as 34 Floridians support the move, as evidenced by the above photograph — 22 of whom are actually voting age. But why are almost all the adults wearing dark sunglasses? Is…
Yesterday, Marco Rubio unveiled the first attack ad on his Republican primary opponent, Charlie Crist. The imagery is a slow, trippy reveal of a picture of Crist with President Obama, while an ominous narrator straight out of a dark fairy-tale movie paints the stimulus package that Crist supported in strokes…
Why is it that the middle-aged have embraced Twitter faster and more enthusiastically than most social networks that came before it? Maybe it’s because it’s so simple. Maybe it’s because it requires so little time to update and touch base with contacts. Maybe it’s because it syncs seamlessly with the…
Big, big news! Charlie Crist has joined Twitter! Well, he also announced his intention to run for Florida’s open Senate seat in 2010, but everyone has known that for months. But as of 9:12 this morning, it’s official. Crist made the announcement through a press release and a Twitter update,…
In the past month the idea that Charlie Crist would run for Senate has gone from hot political rumor to almost foregone conclusion, and news broke this weekend that it is indeed fact. Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer told the Pensacola News Journal last night that Crist will announce…
State Senator Frederica Wilson has Practical hats. She has dramatical hats. She also has pragmatical hats, fanatical hats, oratorical hats, delphioracle hats, skeptical hats, dispeptical hats, romantical hats, pedantical hats, critical hats, parasitical hats, and so on and so forth.Herald/Times Tallahassee bureau just put up a 731 word article on her hats! Which…
One of the most common complaints about universal health care is that it will turn doctors’ offices into overcrowded, beaurecratic nightmares resembling the DMV. These snide dismissals might be a bit overdramatic, but they aren’t totally out of touch as the number of primary care physicians continues to dwindle. But…
