Of three of the biggest political names in Florida, only one -- former Gov. Charlie Crist -- has a favorable rating topping 40 percent, according to a new Sunshine State News poll.
Dogged by rising negative poll numbers and a mocking press, real-estate mogul Donald Trump announced Monday that he would not be a candidate for president in 2012.
Charlie Crist is gone but his “no labels” movement is alive and well and flourishing at the Capitol like a clump of mushrooms in a ditch after the storm. We can thank Jack Latvala for that.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: January 17, 2011 10:26 AM
In one of his first official acts as U.S. senator, Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined six other Republican senators on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The idea is to see firsthand the effect of U.S. involvement in the region.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: November 5, 2010 5:00 PM
Forget Palm Beach County's problems in the Supervisor of Elections' office. Now there's election trouble brewing in the school district of this, Florida's second largest county.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: November 3, 2010 5:14 AM
After hours of anticipation, and a shrinking lead, Rick Scott announced that, however narrow the margin, he will be the winner of the gubernatorial contest.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: November 2, 2010 4:05 AM
Rick Scott pulled his big bus into a small-business parking lot in West Palm Beach on the eve of Election Day. He's in a tight race with Alex Sink, hoping he can get his supporters -- or at least those against Alex Sink and Democrats -- to the polls.
By: Kenric Ward
| Posted: October 30, 2010 4:05 AM
While Republican Rick Scott battles Democrat Alex Sink in a tight gubernatorial contest, Republicans hold steady 9- to 13-point leads for Florida's three other Cabinet-level positions, according to a Sunshine State News Poll.
By: Kenric Ward
| Posted: October 28, 2010 6:26 PM
According to Sunshine State News' nightly tracking poll, in the U.S. Senate race independent Charlie Crist has lost 2 percentage points since the surveys began Oct. 13. Meanwhile, Republican Marco Rubio has padded his lead by 4 points and Democrat Kendrick Meek has picked up a point.
After weeks of trying to get Alex Sink to answer questions about her own accountability in the much-ballyhooed Tallahassee Taj Mahal, Sink and her campaign finally allowed the question after a rally at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth.
By: Kenric Ward
| Posted: October 27, 2010 4:05 AM
Challenging Charlie Crist's credibility, NBC News' David Gregory hammered away at the independent Senate candidate's "evolving" positions on a host of issues Tuesday night.
Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson's slender hopes for retaining his 8th Congressional District seat would be all but dashed if he were in a one-on-one race with Republican Daniel Webster, a Sunshine State News Poll shows.
By: Kenric Ward
| Posted: September 29, 2010 4:05 AM
In one of the most closely watched U.S. House races in the nation, Republican Daniel Webster now holds a 7-point lead over Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson in Central Florida's 8th Congressional District, according to a new Sunshine State News Poll.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: September 24, 2010 4:05 AM
While admitting to not having seen what's in the Republican "Pledge to America" today, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek used its tenets to attack the policies and records of both Republican Marco Rubio and the no-party-candidate Charlie Crist.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: September 17, 2010 4:05 AM
Individual members of the South Florida Agriculture Association say they are departing from the association's traditional Republican stance to back a lieutenant governor candidate they know, Democrat Rod Smith.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: September 13, 2010 4:05 AM
In a year when having a lot of political experience is seen as a negative, Scott Maddox and Adam Putnam attempt to defend their past political lives despite their individual controversies.
By: Lane Wright
| Posted: September 10, 2010 4:05 AM
It may not have all the glamor and hype of the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, but the commissioner of agriculture is not a race -- or a job -- to be ignored.
BP CLAIMS WORK GROUP OK'S RECOMMENDATIONS The head of the House work group overseeing the government claims process says it's too early to hold a special session on the BP oil spill because lost revenue data from the cities and counties won't be available for a while.
The Florida Republican establishment began digging out from the wreckage of the Bill McCollum campaign Wednesday, searching for a political foothold after being rocked by maverick, self-funder Rick Scott’s victory in the GOP primary for governor.
Lizbeth Benacquisto and Sharon Merchant are the Republican front-runners for the Senate District 27 primary election, but they have very different views on what it means to be Republican.
Kendrick Meek took time off his statewide bus tour to vote on the first day of early voting. Immediately after, he attended an early voting rally at the South Florida local of the AFL-CIO.
