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Mitch PerryJuly 17, 2015

Donald Trump leads the Republican presidential field in a new Fox News poll released on Friday morning with 18 percent support. The businessman/celebrity’s rise has been dramatic: He’s up seven percentage points since last month and up 14 points since May. Scott Walker is second with 15 percent, followed closely by Jeb Bush at 14 percent. In fourth place […]

Mitch PerryJuly 13, 2015

The second national poll of the GOP presidential race in three days once again shows Jeb Bush on top, with Donald Trump nipping at his heels. But a deeper look shows Bush is much better shape moving forward. The Monmouth University Poll released Monday afternoon shows Bush at 15 percent, Trump at 13 percent, and […]

Mitch PerryJuly 13, 2015

Florida Democratic Senate hopeful Pam Keith was already a decided underdog in her attempt to become the Democratic party’s nominee for U.S. Senate next year — and that was before Alan Grayson got into the race last week. But Keith, a 46-year-old African-American former Navy JAG officer, says she’s not overly concerned that the Florida political […]

Mitch PerryJuly 13, 2015

While commentators on the Sunday talk shows continued to deride his candidacy, apparently enough Republican primary voters like what Donald Trump is talking about on the campaign trail. A Reuters-Ipsos poll released on Saturday shows that The Donald trails only Jeb Bush in a survey of national GOP presidential voters. Bush is at 16.1 percent, […]

Associated PressJuly 6, 2015

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is suggesting Jeb Bush is out of step with Republican principles in the party’s presidential race. Bush departs from some conservative Republicans with his policies on immigration and education. The former Florida governor has said GOP presidential candidates should be willing to “lose the primary to win the general” election. Jindal […]

Phil AmmannJuly 6, 2015

Florida progressives may have been seeing red Monday morning. When a local Sunday morning cable news show asked liberal U.S. Rep. (and possible Senate candidate) Alan Grayson what he thought about the GOP presidential field, the Orlando Democrat made a surprising endorsement. Grayson wants Republican Rand Paul to be his next president. “I look at the Republican field and I […]

Martin DyckmanJuly 1, 2015

Those who flaunt the Confederate flag insist that it symbolizes “heritage,” not hate. Call it what they will, but that heritage is a heritage of hate. The slave owners and their politicians fancied themselves good, decent, God-fearing people. How could they square that with the countless hideous brutalities they inflicted on their human chattels? They […]

Mitch PerryJuly 1, 2015

Although Jeb Bush appears to be on a roll in national polls since his official declaration that he is running for president 16 days ago, Iowa appears to be immune to that bounce a new Quinnipiac poll in Iowa has found. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads in the survey released Wednesday with 18 percent of the vote, well […]

Bill PrescottJune 30, 2015

Those who flaunt the Confederate flag insist that it symbolizes “heritage,” not hate. Call it what they will, but that heritage is a heritage of hate. The slave owners and their politicians fancied themselves good, decent, God-fearing people. How could they square that with the countless hideous brutalities they inflicted on their human chattels? They […]

Mitch PerryJune 29, 2015

Last month Justice Department announced that the Obama administration would provide $20 million in grants to local police departments to help buy body cameras for officers. It’s the first portion to be approved by Congress of a $75 million, three-year body camera funding program requested by the President last December. That’s not to be confused […]

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Donald Trump leads GOP presidential field in new Fox poll

Jeb Bush at 15%, Donald Trump at 13% in new Monmouth University national poll

Pam Keith aims to be heard as 3rd Democratic U.S. Senate candidate

Donald Trump in virtual tie with Jeb Bush in new Reuters poll

Bobby Jindal says Jeb Bush willing to hide GOP principles

Red flag alert? Alan Grayson wants Rand Paul to be his next president

Martin Dyckman: The time is now to take it down

Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio fade in Iowa in new poll

Martin Dyckman: The time is now to take it down

Patrick Murphy joins Corrine Brown in pushing for federal funding for police body cameras