Articles in Category: 'Tea Party'

By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 3, 2010 12:30 PM
 
Republican outsider Rick Scott narrowly beat Democrat Alex Sink to become Florida's next governor, capping a stunning insurgent campaign and completing a GOP sweep of statewide offices.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 3, 2010 4:31 AM
 
At 10:25 p.m. Tuesday, with 160,000 votes still to be counted in Palm Beach County and Republican outsider Rick Scott ahead of Democrat Alex Sink by 110,000 votes, Sunshine State News called the gubernatorial race for Scott.
 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: November 2, 2010 9:32 PM
 
Republican Adam Putnam will be the next Florida agriculture and consumer services commissioner after defeating Democrat Scott Maddox in a landslide victory Tuesday.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 2, 2010 8:30 PM
 
Riding a wave of tea party support and anti-Obama angst, Republican Marco Rubio crushed independent Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek to become Florida's newest U.S. senator.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 2, 2010 8:50 PM
 
It's one and done for U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, who was trounced in his first re-election bid by Republican Daniel Webster in Central Florida's 8th Congressional District.
 
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By: David Royse News Service of Florida | Posted: November 2, 2010 8:05 AM
Overshadowed by a razor-tight governor’s race and a three-way contest for an open U.S. Senate seat, several Florida congressional races are being eyed closely by national political watchers for having the potential to determine who controls Congress.
 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: November 2, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Thanks to the 2000 presidential election debacle -- most of it centered here in Florida -- both major parties have amassed a storehouse of legal firepower. As voters head to the polls Tuesday, judicial decisions and the mere presence of lawyers have already affected some midterm elections across the country.

 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: October 28, 2010 4:05 AM
 
The re-election of Rep. Chris Dorworth, R-Heathrow, should be a sure thing.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 26, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Holding a steady 7-point lead over a controversial and increasingly malodorous incumbent, Republican Daniel Webster is poised to knock out U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, a new Sunshine State News Poll shows.
 
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By: Nancy Smith | Posted: October 24, 2010 10:33 AM
 

Heading into Sunday morning's CNN debate, Gov. Charlie Crist was already having a bad day.

 
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By: Michael Barone | Posted: October 23, 2010 4:05 AM
 

One of the constant refrains of the so-called mainstream media is that tea party candidates are blithering incompetents and weird wackos. They may do well this year, the refrain goes, but when voters come to their senses, the Republican Party will pay a big price for embracing them.

 
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In an onslaught of last-minute political spending, conservative political action committees tied to Republican strategist Karl Rove have paid out more than $2 million in the past three weeks to boost Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 18, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Republican Adam Putnam tops a four-way field for state commissioner of agriculture, according to a Sunshine State News Poll.
 
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By: Alex Newman | Posted: October 11, 2010 8:12 AM

Hundreds of liberty-minded Florida activists gathered Sunday -- the symbolic 10-10-10 -- at a resort in Orlando for the Nullify Now conference, a rally and seminar to celebrate the 10th Amendment and promote the idea of nullifying federal laws like “Obamacare.”

 
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By: John Kennedy News Service of Florida | Posted: October 8, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Florida Republican lawmakers and major contributors who fiercely opposed Rick Scott during the party’s August primary for governor wasted little time sliding over to support the nominee.

 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: October 4, 2010 4:05 AM
 
State Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, the Republican nominee for Florida’s 25th Congressional District, is counting on his conservative message and ideology to carry him to victory in November.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 1, 2010 4:05 PM

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.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 30, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Alan Grayson rode into Congress in 2008 with searing, vitriolic attacks on the Bush administration and Capitol Hill Republicans.
 
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By: Charles Krauthammer | Posted: September 25, 2010 4:05 AM
 

WASHINGTON -- When facing a tsunami, what do you do? Pray, and tell yourself stories. I am not privy to the Democrats' private prayers, but I do hear the stories they're telling themselves. The new meme is that there's a civil war raging in the Republican Party. The tea party will wreck it from within and prove to be the Democrats' salvation.

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: September 20, 2010 2:59 PM

While the battle to become Florida’s next attorney general isn't getting the attention of the contests for U.S. Senate and governor, Republican candidate Pam Bondi and Democratic nominee Sen. Dan Gelber continue to attack each other, attempting to define their opponent before the November election.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 14, 2010 4:05 AM
 

While Democrats and media pundits denigrate any thought of the Republican Party suing Gov. Charlie Crist over hundreds of thousands of dollars in party-paid travel expenses, at least one GOP strategist sees potential upsides, legally and politically.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 9, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Republican Marco Rubio, garnering surprising strength among independent voters, holds a double-digit lead over his two chief rivals in Florida's U.S. Senate race, a new Sunshine State News Poll reports.

 
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By: George Will | Posted: September 3, 2010 4:05 AM
 
DENVER -- Put away the pitchfork metaphors that are prevalent in this season of populist ferment: Colorado's Senate contest is a duel of distinguished diplomas. Tea partiers toiled mightily to nominate Ken Buck as the Republican candidate to run against Sen. Michael Bennet, who is a direct descendant of a Mayflower passenger, grandson of an economic adviser to Franklin Roosevelt and son of an official in the Carter and Clinton administrations. He attended tony St. Alban's school in Washington, D.C., and Yale Law School. Buck is a Princetonian.  
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: September 2, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Leaders of the Florida TEA (“Taxed Enough Already”) Party chose Tallahassee Wednesday to promote their 21 candidates across the state and to endorse Rick Scott, the Republican gubernatorial candidate.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: August 26, 2010 4:05 AM
 

A combination of negative ads and poll-driven speculation in the media ate away at Rick Scott's double-digit lead in the Republican gubernatorial campaign and almost cost him the election.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: August 24, 2010 9:53 PM
 

Former state Sen. Daniel Webster cruised to victory over six Republican opponents and will face Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, and TEA Party candidate Peg Dunmire in November.

 
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By: John Kennedy News Service of Florida | Posted: August 24, 2010 4:05 AM
Fueled by a stratospheric $100 million in spending, candidates topping the primary ballot Monday barnstormed the state in a last-ditch push for voters – with polls showing the Republican governor’s contest tightening and the Democratic battle for U.S. Senate tilting decidedly toward U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: August 21, 2010 4:05 AM

The race to unseat Democratic Rep. Suzanne Kosmas is wide open, with five Republicans running in Congressional District 24.
 
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