BY JORGE BONILLA I’ll confess. I was NOT awaiting the GOP “autopsy” with bated breath, because I suspected it would miss out on the substantive issues of Hispanic/minority outreach, and would conflate policy with outreach. Sadly, I was right. The GOP’s “Growth and Opportunity Project” is intended to be a launching point from which the Republican party … Read more
by Lone Shark The latest Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald poll of Florida has Mitt Romney with a 6-point lead over President Barack Obama 51-45. The poll of 800 likely voters was conducted by the Mason Dixon polling firm. From the Miami Herald- “I’m pretty convinced Romney’s going to win Florida,” said Mason-Dixon … Read more
by Lone Shark Alec Abruzzo, the self-identified “half brother” of Democrat State Representative Joe Abruzzo took the initiative to trash his brother’s candidacy for State Senate directly on his Republican opponent Melanie Peterson’s Campaign for State Senate Facebook page. Peterson and Abruzzo are locked in a highly contested race for State Senate in District 25 … Read more
by Lone Shark Republican congressional candidate Adam Hasner’s new campaign commercial “flushes” his opponent Lois Frankel and the $13,000 of taxpayer money she spent on a marble shower and a toilet- all in a private bathroom. Hasner is running for Congress in the 22nd congressional district, the seat that was vacated by Congressman Allen West … Read more
by Lone Shark Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney likely accomplished their objectives in last night’s presidential debate in Boca Raton, but it likely did not change the trajectory of the presidential race that likely still favors Romney. Romney did what he needed to do, which was to exude a presidential temperament, come across as … Read more
By Javier Manjarres Fresh off his feisty debate performance with Senator Bill Nelson, Congressman Connie Mack has embarked on a bus tour that has him crisscrossing the state of Florida until the final days before the November 6th General Election.(Debate) One of the stops that Mack’s bus tour made was at the Indian River County Tea … Read more
by Lone Shark Debates like last night’s presidential debate are somewhat harder to sit through in their entirety for a number of reasons. When you’re witnessing a debate with a moderator who thinks that selective fact checking is a part of the job description, or worse, when you’re watching Barack Obama attempt to paper over … Read more
by Lone Shark Shark Tank-endorsed candidate Melanie Peterson has secured a big endorsement from Florida’s junior Senator Marco Rubio in her race for State Senate. We’ve been following the very interesting District 25 Senate race throughout the past several months, as Peterson faces a general election showdown with State Representative Joe Abruzzo. Here is … Read more
by Javier Manjarres As we reported over the weekend, it was likely that Florida’s U.S. Senate race would be tightening up, as pollster Scott Rasmussen told the Shark Tank that there was momentum in Congressman Connie Mack’s favor.(Source) Now we have confirmation of Mack’s ascendancy, as the latest Rasmussen telephone survey of likely voters has … Read more
by Lone Shark The latest Mason-Dixon poll of likely voters in Florida conducted for the Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald has Mitt Romney surging ahead of President Barack Obama 51-44 with 4% undecided, a substantial change from last month’s survey which had Obama up by a point 48-47. The poll of 800 likely voters was … Read more