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Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2015

Has Hillary Clinton stemmed any erosion of support for her due to the ongoing saga regarding her emails? Though she trails Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders in state polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, she has never trailed in a national poll of Democratic presidential candidates this year, and a new CNN/ORC poll released Monday […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 17, 2015

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Speaking on Fox and Friends Thursday morning, Marco Rubio defended his remarks in Wednesday night’s presidential debate about missing more votes than anyone else this year in the Senate. “When there is a vote that’s meaningful and serious, we are there and doing our job,” he told the cable new network’s morning show. Hours later, […]

Melissa RossSeptember 16, 2015

The 2016 presidential candidate that wins Florida will do it by pulling off a nifty hat trick: appealing to both Baby Boomers AND Millennials. “People don’t realize that the millennials as a group are larger in size than the boomers,” says Susan McManus, professor of political science at the University of South Florida. In her […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 16, 2015

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As the emergence of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Ben Carson reflects, Americans are more than ever weary of the way that traditional politics is played on the national stage. The fastest growing number of new voters in Florida aren’t registering as Republican or Democratic, but are independents who choose no party affiliation. According to the […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 16, 2015

Hillary Clinton may be struggling against Vermont independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, but Berniemania hasn’t come to the Sunshine State, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released Tuesday. The former secretary of state and New York U.S. senator dominates the Democratic primary race with 55 percent […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

The latest Public Policy Poll survey released Tuesday shows that, as is the case in virtually every other poll in the country right now, Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson are the top two favorites of Republican presidential primary voters in Florida, more than four months before the first votes start counting. Trump and Carson’s […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

No, Hillary Clinton is not losing the race for the Democratic Primary, not if you take the Real Clear Politics average of the national spread between her and Bernie Sanders. She’s up overall by 21 percentage points. But in the first in the nation voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire? It’s a completely different […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 14, 2015

A majority of voters think Republican U.S. Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi probe is more about damaging Hillary Clinton than trying to uncover why Ambassador Chris Stevens was slain in Libya, a national survey commissioned by Hillary Clinton supporters contends. It also contends that a majority of voters think Jeb Bush should turn over his e-mail server from […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 11, 2015

It’s a story that’s been mentioned throughout the year, and now USA Today is weighing in on this reality on its front page today. No other U.S. Senator running for president this year has missed as many votes than Marco Rubio. The junior senator from Florida has missed 77 out of 263 roll call votes this year […]

Bill RuftySeptember 10, 2015

The Florida Presidential Primary is six months away, and while the focus has been on Iowa and New Hampshire in the daily “he blinked … she said …” second-by-second coverage, the faithful in the Sunshine State are getting ready, none more than those working for the second-place runner for the Democrats. Already groups of supporters […]

Tag: Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton increases lead nationally in new CNN Democratic poll

Marco Rubio says he’ll show up in Senate when vote is “meaningful”

Susan McManus: 2016 candidates must appeal to Florida’s two “super-sized generations”

Bid to have top-two primary voting system on 2016 Florida ballot going slow

Hillary Clinton continues to dominate in Florida in new PPP survey

Donald Trump, Ben Carson first and second in latest Florida presidential poll

Mitch Perry Report for 9.15.15 – Bernie Sanders does Liberty University

Majority of voters think Hillary Clinton email story politically driven, survey finds

Marco Rubio has missed nearly 30 percent of all votes in the Senate this year

Central Florida grassroots Dems get busy early for Bernie Sanders