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Mitch PerryAugust 5, 2015

Hours after Jeb Bush launched his campaign store on Wednesday (complete with a $75 guacamole bowl), the Democratic National Committee came up with a two-fer today to jump in on the fun. Seizing on the opportunity to mock some recent faux pas the Republican candidate has uttered on the campaign trail, the DNC has come up with […]

Mitch PerryAugust 4, 2015

Maybe the presidential race will be what some fantasize/dread has always been the inevitable challenge – a Jeb Bush v. Hillary Clinton throwback contest of dueling 60-somethings. But it doesn’t look like it in early August of 2015. Forget about Jeb’s misstatements, which are starting to pile up. Let’s look deeper at some of Hillary’s numbers. […]

Martin DyckmanAugust 4, 2015

America’s doctors have long since made their peace with Medicare, which marked its 50th anniversary last week, but its oldest and most implacable enemy, the ideological right wing, is still bent on destroying it. If you were a politician who shared that purpose, how might you go about it? You’d harp on how the trust […]

Phil AmmannAugust 4, 2015

Seemingly every day, Marco Rubio announces another Nevada-area endorsement. As Jon Ralston notes in the Reno Gazette-Journal, many are familiar to locals: state Sen. Patty Farley, Assemblyman Erv Nelson, and ex-state Sen. Warren Hardy. Others, however, are not as well known, which leads Ralston to ask: who they are and why they are so important? […]

Diane RobertsAugust 4, 2015

Maybe it’s the excitement of the upcoming candidate debate, the influence of Pluto, or the infernal heat, but Florida Republicans are acting weirder than usual. Jeb Bush casually proposed getting rid of Medicare in front of a gaggle of older people. A couple of days later, he copped to a man-crush on James K. Polk, […]

Mitch PerryAugust 4, 2015

The last national polls to be released before the first GOP presidential debate of the year takes place on Thursday are are in, and all have the same result: Donald Trump; leads in all four new polls out from CBS News, Fox, Monmouth University and Bloomberg. The CBS News poll is the latest, coming out at […]

Mitch PerryAugust 3, 2015

Donald Trump‘s endless summer of bliss at the polls continues to show no signs of dying out anytime soon. Last week he took the lead in a Florida poll for the first time, and a new Gravis Marketing poll released Monday night has him with a huge lead in South Carolina, the first state in the […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2015

The presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is floundering. Our publisher, Peter Schorsch, laid it bare Monday morning: “I hate to keep dogging a fellow Floridian’s chances of winning the White House, but Rubio’s campaign really needs a 5-Hour Energy Shot.” Rubio is down in the polls. Schorsch’s theory, that Rubio’s message boils down to […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2015

At the Voters First Forum in New Hampshire, two Florida presidential candidates were scheduled to speak: former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio. With each candidate having about five minutes to answer questions, the slot went quickly. Bush, second in most national polls to the surging Donald Trump, was expected, by Florida Politics’ Mitch Perry, to be “poised […]

Diane RobertsAugust 3, 2015

Maybe it’s the excitement of the upcoming candidate debate, the influence of Pluto, or the infernal heat, but Florida Republicans are acting weirder than usual. Jeb Bush casually proposed getting rid of Medicare in front of a gaggle of older people. A couple of days later, he copped to a man-crush on James K. Polk, […]

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