If Guns Don’t Kill People, Why Does Florida Cheat Mental Health?
Pro-gun states like Florida insist that tragedies like Sandy Hook are a mental health issue, yet they hypocritically spend the least on those services.
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Where Does Cuban Voters’ Support for Obama Leave Rubio?
The idea that Florida Senator Marco Rubio would help Mitt Romney salvage some of the Latino electorate was always one of the Republican Party’s more half-baked strategies in 2012. Obama won 71% of the Hispanic vote; Romney got an abysmal 27%. Despite his best efforts, Rubio is a Cuban-American, which counts for a lot on his humid home …
Election 2012: Lessons from Florida
Even though the outcome wasn’t decisive, Florida still matters. Per usual in the 21st century, it is the national bellwether.
Despite Controversy, Early Voting Boosts Obama in Florida
A look at the numbers begs the question: Did Republicans really succeed in blunting Democrats’ early advantage?
Romney’s Edge: Moderate Mitt Takes Florida by Storm
Though Ohio is widely considered the make-or-break state this year, Mitt Romney will have a hard time winning the presidency without taking Florida and its 29 electoral votes. And right now his chances look pretty good.
Did the Anti-Voter Fraud Crusade Undermine the GOP in Florida?
The Sunshine State news last week was dark enough for Republicans even before the voter registration scandal hit the headlines. A Quinnipiac poll gave President Obama 53% to just 44% for GOP candidate Mitt Romney in the critical swing state of Florida, which seemed a neck-and-neck race just a few weeks ago. That body blow has since been …
From Cesar Chavez to the Denver Debate: Mexican-American Voters Finally Have Their Say
Fifty years to the week after Chicano activist Cesar Chavez put Mexican Americans on the political map, their long-overdue electoral clout will be felt at Wednesday night’s presidential debate
Charlie Crist Is Back – and Democrats Are Smart to Take Him In
It’s hard to believe now that the GOP ever allowed such a thing. In 2007, the host of a major climate-change summit was none other than Florida’s then governor — and then Republican — Charlie Crist. “If you go back to …
20 Years After Hurricane Andrew, Storm Costs and Ideology Loom Over Florida
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Hurricane Andrew, which slammed into South Florida on Aug. 24, 1992, was the second costliest storm in modern U.S. history. Here in Miami-Dade County, which took the monstrous brunt of Andrew’s Category 5 winds, …
The NAACP Boos Romney: A Double Standard and a Breach of Civility
It’s politically fashionable to question the relevance of the 103-year-old National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But the NAACP is still one of America’s most revered institutions, and deservedly so – …
Rick Scott Is Turning Down Obama’s Medicaid Expansion. Is He Turning Off Florida Voters Too?
Florida Governor Rick Scott has never been one to let facts get in the way of conservative ideology, and recently he’s been trumpeting a lot of untruths about the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. He claims the law’s …
Obama and Romney Finally Court Latinos – and Latin America
It’s a doleful time for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who leaves office in five months. Thanks to a bloody drug war and a limp economy that only now is starting to rebound, his party’s candidate is running third in …
