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Scott PowersOctober 31, 2016

National and statewide Democrats and their organizations have now reached $5.7 million in spending to try to help Stephanie Murphy defeat longtime Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. John Mica in Florida’s 7th Congressional District, Mica said Monday morning. Mica’s campaign announced the latest number this morning while again denouncing the Washington Democrats’ backing of Murphy as “unprecedented” in […]

Mitch PerryOctober 27, 2016

So much in the news today to discuss, but let’s start (and end) with a review of last night’s debate between Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy. If you were scoring at home (congratulations if you were, to paraphrase Keith Olbermann from his ESPN days), you might have had Rubio up by a few points at the end, but like the […]

Mitch PerryOctober 25, 2016

Attention political junkies: not every voter pays attention to politics until right before the election, which is why that ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee “dramatizing” David Jolly standing with Donald Trump was so egregious. The ad — one of the most controversial of any produced this season in American politics — was immediately denounced by the Jolly campaign, who […]

Scott PowersOctober 18, 2016

The Democrats are publicizing a second poll they commissioned showing their candidate, Stephanie Murphy, leading Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. John Mica in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The poll, commissioned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and performed by Global Strategy Group and Lester & Associates, shows Murphy with 48 percent and Mica with 45 percent. It’s the second […]

Mitch PerryOctober 17, 2016

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee boasted this weekend that David Jolly‘s campaign “lied and it backfired” regarding his camp’s announcement Friday that a local television station had pulled a controversial ad that uses doctored photos of Jolly with Donald Trump. “Jolly’s bizarre strategy to solely object to dramatized pictures in a DCCC ad depicting a potential “President Trump” working with a […]

Mitch PerryOctober 13, 2016

A shocking new poll in Florida’s 13th Congressional District gives Democrat Charlie Crist an 18-point lead over GOP incumbent David Jolly. The Public Opinion Research Laboratory at the University of North Florida puts the race at 54 to 36 percent. Nine percent of CD 13 voters are undecided, and one percent support another candidate. The 18-point gap is by far the […]

Scott PowersOctober 11, 2016

Florida might have only four truly competitive congressional races this fall but outside groups are spending big in them – more than in any other state. Groups such as the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Democrats’ House Majority Fund have poured millions of dollars into Florida’s Congressional Districts 7, 13, 18 and 26 since the […]

Scott PowersSeptember 21, 2016

A new poll conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says that its candidate Stephanie Murphy is within striking distance of longtime incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica in Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The poll gives Mica 48 percent and Murphy 45 percent in the district, which covers north central and northeast Orange County and […]

Larry GriffinSeptember 12, 2016

At a fundraising breakfast Monday morning at the Brio Tuscan Grille in Winter Park, 7th Congressional District incumbent John Mica warned of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) trying to “buy” the election for his challenger, Stephanie Murphy. And it was the supporters of his campaign, he stressed, that could stop that from happening. Mica was introduced by […]

Peter SchorschAugust 16, 2016

We’re not “vibrant”? What a bummer. Among the gems in Monday’s Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) data dump was a look at the “Orlando Media Market,” in which yours truly gets a mention. Hacker (or hacking collective) Guccifer 2.0 posted “DCCC internal docs on primaries in Florida” on his/their/its blog. It mentioned the 7th Congressional District seat, held by Republican […]

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Democrats’ spending for Stephanie Murphy at $5.7 million, John Mica’s campaign reports

Mitch Perry Report for 10.27.16 — Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy battle it one last time

Mitch Perry Report for 10.25.16 — DCCC ad linking Trump to Jolly goes away, but has the damage been done?

Democrats tout second poll showing Stephanie Murphy up in CD 7

DCCC says David Jolly ‘lied and it backfired’ about Donald Trump ad

Shock poll in Congressional District 13: Charlie Crist 54%, David Jolly 36%

More outside money spent in Florida congressional races than in any other state

DCCC poll says Stephanie Murphy in striking distance of John Mica in CD 7

John Mica, warning of coming DCCC challenge, rallies supporters to help him win at fundraiser breakfast

Hacked DCCC emails refer to FloridaPolitics.com reporter Scott Powers