Gov. Rick Scott just spent four years as one of America’s most deeply unpopular elected officials. Thanks to his days running a firm that earned the largest fine in U.S. history for Medicare fraud, he has skeletons in his closet that would make Hannibal Lecter flinch. He had to blow…
After some embarrassing losses in the midterm elections, the Florida Democratic party is full of some finger pointing and infighting at the moment, but the party’s State Chairwoman Allison Tant is sick of it. She told the News Service of Florida that, “the bed-wetters need to shut up, and we…
Senator Bill Nelson is just about the only problem the Florida Democratic Party doesn’t have. The 72-year-old senator is in his third term and always cruises to an easy reelection, and has held one elected office or another since 1973 save for a four-year gap in the early ’90s. But…
For the past few presidential elections, Florida has been the grand prize of swing states. It’s 29 electoral votes could have conceivably gone either way. President Obama was able to win Florida in the past two elections, but that was only after hard campaigning and a sophisticated “get out the…
Rick Scott and his fellow Tallahassee Republicans’ strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act has resulted in the state refusing to allow the federal government to expand Medicaid in Florida. But their refusal could cause Florida hospitals to miss out on billions in funding, with Miami’s cash-strapped Jackson Memorial Hospital…
Last week we urged you to go vote, even if you didn’t want to vote for Rick Scott or Charlie Crist: At Least Vote for Third-Party or Write-in Candidates. It’s not throwing your vote out. The only way to throw your vote out is not to vote. If 60,000 voters…
It seems like anytime we elect a new mayor in Miami we’re also kickstarting the political career of at least one of their children as well. Raquel Regalado, a School Board member and daughter of current Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, announced this morning that she’s very possibly eying a run…
Marco Rubio hasn’t even completed a full term in the Senate, but he’s taking the presidential buzz that surrounds him (or used to, anyway) seriously. He says he’ll decide whether or not to make a bid for the White House in the coming weeks…
When Philip Levine announced last year that he wanted to become mayor of Miami Beach, many people wondered why a multimillionaire would spend a chunk of his fortune in pursuit of a $10,000-per-year position. That question was answered yesterday as Levine held court for more than a half-hour to boast…
Want to know why polling indicated Charlie Crist was about to pull off a narrow victory only to end up being defeated by Rick Scott? Well, yes, low turnout in South Florida had something to do with it, but the fact that Scott ended up pouring $13 million into his…
For four years, Florida Democrats giggled with glee at every Rick Scott failure. They practically drooled with expectation as Scott’s approval ratings sunk further than a boat in the Bermuda Triangle. They thought there was no way they could lose to this guy again, but last night they did, and…
Last night’s election results didn’t look a lot different from 2010’s election. Rick Scott snuck out a small but definite win over his Democratic opponent, but if you look at the exit poll data you will notice some shifting allegiances in Florida’s electorate even if it didn’t make much of…
Just after 8 p.m, the mood at the Ren a Venue, an event space in the Sunset Strip Plaza in Kendall hosting Carlos Curbelo’s election-night watch party, didn’t feel particularly celebratory. Fifty or so well-dressed supporters milled around, and “Sweet Home Alabama” blared over a loudspeaker, but the room was…
There’s a meme that’s been going strong on Reddit’s Florida page all summer. It shows Rick Scott and Charlie Crist side-by-side with the caption “Giant Douche Versus Turd Sandwich.” That South Park reference seemed to resonate especially in Democrat-rich South Florida. As Riptide noted yesterday, local Facebook feeds and Twitter…
With some races expected to be agonizingly tight, tonight’s election results may get sweaty. So please feel free to keep an electric fan pointed at you at all times. Its not against the rules. As always, we’ll fill in the results of the most notable elections up top as they…
Charlie Crist may have publicly hugged Barack Obama back when he was a Republican, but the president has been nowhere to be seen during Crist’s election bid as a Democrat. Many speculate that’s because Crist didn’t want to be tied to Washington politics and Obama’s somewhat falling popularity. Well, Obama…
Rick Scott and Charlie Crist, AKA Lord Voldemort and the sleaziest used-car salesman you ever met, may not be the most inspiring candidates ever, but that’s not an excuse not to vote today. Of course, Facebook and Twitter and all of that are full of people proudly proclaiming they’ve voted,…
Just in case you weren’t convinced by the past six months of polls showing the Charlie Crist/Rick Scott race is barreling toward a razor-thin, Bush-vs.-Gore-esque, last-minute photo finish tomorrow, a new set of polls is out this morning to confirm that, yup, this thing is way too close to call…
Let’s be honest: Florida is to fair and well-run polling as Kanye West is to humble and modest self-image. We’re just not very good at it. You don’t even have to go back to the Dubya-crowning recount debacle for evidence of Sunshine State voting ineptitude. Just transport yourself back to…
H. Gary Morse, Florida’s most powerful developer, died Wednesday night at the age of 77. Morse didn’t upend existing cities and build shiny new luxury towers along their coasts. Instead he created and kept careful control over his own make-shift city, populated mostly by people over the age of 55…
So many recent polls have shown Charlie Crist and Gov. Rick Scott in a dead heat that state election officials actually went on record this week worrying about what might happen if a recount was needed to break a statistical tie. This race is damned close. But a new poll…
Usually a high-profile politician coming out against your opponent is a good thing. Unless you’re Democrat Charlie Crist, and the guy attacking your opponent is Ralph Nader. Because, as we found out here in Florida back in 2000, left-leaning people who listen to Ralph Nader don’t necessarily vote for Democrats…
