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Guest AuthorJanuary 27, 2015

Earlier this month, I took a look at where Florida fit in the pantheon of battleground states. This one is more a primer on the state heading into 2016 in terms of the keys to past Democratic and Republican wins since 2000. Like the last piece, this one aggregates data. This time I use county […]

Steve SchaleJanuary 27, 2015

-Earlier this month, I took at look at where Florida fit in the pantheon of battleground states. This one is more of a primer on the state heading into 2016 in terms of the keys to past Democratic and Republican wins since 2000. Like the last piece, this examines the data by aggregating data, in […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 7, 2015

With convening of the 114th Congress and the swearing in this week of new governors and state representatives, the GOP on paper is sitting very pretty in the Capitol and the nation’s statehouses. Republicans now hold majorities in both the U.S. House and the Senate. They also hold 32 governorships (that included winning 4 new […]

Phil AmmannDecember 16, 2014

On Tuesday, Jeb Bush made his most substantial move towards a presidential run to date, with the announcement to “actively explore” a campaign, and a new political committee for Republican fundraising. For Democrats, the move was hardly surprising, seen as just another way to keep Bush in the headlines. “Isn’t this what he’s been doing […]

Phil AmmannDecember 16, 2014

On Tuesday, Jeb Bush made his most substantial move towards a presidential run to date, with the announcement to “actively explore” a campaign, and a new political committee for Republican fundraising. For Democrats, the move was hardly surprising, seen as just another way to keep Bush in the headlines. “Isn’t this what he’s been doing […]

Guest AuthorDecember 15, 2014

Gwen Graham took a victory lap in the Panhandle this past week; meeting with business leaders in four of the biggest counties of the 2nd Congressional District. Graham is a rare Florida Democrat; she won an election. While party leaders stage their familiar post-midterm drama, politicians, consultants and donors expressing bewilderment about the shellacking the […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 11, 2014

It did not come as news this week that the CIA had tortured terrorism suspects. Americans already knew that. So did our enemies. The U.S. Senate select committee’s controversial report accomplished much more, however, than to simply provide the brutal, degrading, horrifying details. Equally disturbing, if not more so, was the conclusion that agency officials […]

Bruce RitchieDecember 11, 2014

Jon Steverson, Gov. Rick Scott’s choice as Department of Environmental Protection secretary, has been an outspoken director of the Northwest Florida Water Management District during his brief tenure there. Whether he will impress environmentalists with his passion and results at DEP is uncertain. Scott named Steverson, 39, on Thursday to replace Herschel T. Vinyard Jr., […]

Daniel TilsonDecember 10, 2014

I’m this close to believing Florida Democratic Party (FDP) leaders can’t see the political forest full of discontent and disinterest enveloping them, due to a new reform agenda focused on “operational” tree trimming. The party responded to its Election 2014 failures the same way so many other large, out-of-touch organizations respond after taking big, embarrassing […]

Adam WeinsteinDecember 8, 2014

With the loss of Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana’s run-off election last weekend, Southern Democrats have just about gone extinct. For the first time since Reconstruction, no state in the Deep South has a Democrat in the Senate or the governor’s office. As a Southern liberal, I say: Good. America will be better off without […]

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One of several proposed designs for Florida's new Margaritaville license plates. Image via the office of Rep. Linda Chaney.

Steven Schale: 2016 Florida outlook has bright spots for Dems and GOP

Steve Schale: Early primer on Florida 2016

Steven Kurlander: Truly bad grits – the GOP's curse of the South

Democrats respond to Jeb Bush “actively exploring” White House run

Democrats respond to Jeb Bush "actively exploring" White House run

James Call: Gwen Graham gives Florida Democrats a blueprint for recovery

Martin Dyckman: Listen to Sen. John McCain, who speaks with great authority on torture

Bruce Ritchie: On Florida’s newly appointed Department of Environmental Protection director

Daniel Tilson: Florida Democratic Party can’t ‘LEAD’ from behind

Adam Weinstein: Goodbye, Southern Democrats, and good riddance