CNN/TIME/ORC has a new poll of four states out today. Here’s a link to my story. Short version:
Alaska:
Senate: Lisa Murkowski’s becoming a real threat to Joe Miller in polls — but that doesn’t mean these people know how to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I come Nov. 2. Governor: GOP incumbent Sean Parnell is winning.
California:
Senate & …
Tuesday night’s primaries reminded us that nothing this election season is as we expect it. A third Senate incumbent is fighting for her political life this morning: in a surprisingly close race Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski is trailing Tea Party fave Joe Miller by 2,000 votes with 98% of precincts reporting. The results of this …
The theme of this Tuesday’s primaries is: if you’re an incumbent and you love your base and you hug it close — really, really tightly — you might just win your party’s nomination. Though, some might argue that running so hard to the right (or the left) might be a Faustian bargain from which you risk never regaining your soul …
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Rick Scott, a Republican candidate for governor in Florida, goes to town on Obama and Park51/Cordoba House in a new TV spot released today. It seems like many Republicans (and certainly Scott) see the president’s position as a boon, and this is a pretty good illustration of how …
This is the tale of two polls.
The first was done by Mason-Dixon, between August 8 and 11. It surveyed 400 likely Democratic primary voters with a margin of error of 5 percent. It found Kendrick Meek had a commanding lead over his Democratic Senate primary opponent Jeff Greene. Meek got 40 percent. Greene got 26 percent. That’s a 14 …
Ah, Florida: Scarface, Disney, Golden Girls, Seinfeld’s parents, Tiger, Elian, Crockett, Tubbs, sugar, swamps, spring training, LMFAO, oranges, chads, (Jimmy) Buffett, Marino, Lebron and so much more, including one of the most exciting Senate races in the country this cycle, a three-way match up between conservative wonder boy Marco …
It keeps getting better. First we have this ad from Florida, which as Jonathan Martin points out, asks a crucial question for the electorate: Does Florida want to elect a Senator who doesn’t wear collar stays?
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But that’s nothing compared to the wormy chocolate, …
Our Miami-based colleague Tim Padgett files this report on a very savvy Charlie Crist:
At first glance, Tuesday looked like a bad day for Florida Governor Charlie Crist. He’d called the Florida legislature back to Tallahassee to consider placing an initiative on the November ballot asking voters whether offshore oil drilling
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There are a few very simple truths about how health insurance works, which some commentators and politicians can’t seem to grasp. The result is a constant drumbeat of disingenuous statements that misrepresent how health reform will work and why the Affordable Care Act was written as it is.
The latest failure to grasp comes from …
Not to turn Swampland into the Chronicle of Floridian Political Advertising, but always-colorful Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson’s opening re-election offering is just too good to pass up:
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The avalanche of red meat might seem a bit strange considering he represents a R+2 …
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Jobs jobs jobs jobs, Jeff Greene jobs jobs. Jobs Florida jobs, jobs jobs jobs Senate. Jobs.
(via Adam Smith)
Our colleague Michael Grunwald has a story out today on the likely Democratic candidate in the race for Florida’s Senate seat. Yes, a Democrat is running, despite that much of the political oxygen is being sucked up by Republican candidate Marco Rubio and newly minted independent Charlie Crist. That Democrat is Kendrick Meek and although …
I spent Memorial Day weekend on the Gulf Coast. Not in NoLa with my colleagues staking out Thad Allen’s new solo briefings, but along Florida’s southern coast where my parents live. I was surprised to see the beaches more packed than I’d ever seen them. All the hotels in town were sold out, my parent’s told me, because of …
