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Daniel TilsonOctober 12, 2014

To take the pulse of public sentiment about something or someone in Florida politics, I’d rather eavesdrop on strangers’ coffee shop conversations than pour over the latest polls. The anecdotal approach certainly has a higher margin of error, no doubt about it. It will never replace the statistical science of polling, nor should it. But […]

Guest AuthorOctober 12, 2014

On Wednesday, there will be a televised live debate between Charlie Crist and Rick Scott — and possibly Adrian Wyllie. Wyllie is suing to participate under the presumption that he has met the threshold of 15 percent in polls set by the debate organizers. Did he make it? This is not a legal analysis of […]

Gary FineoutOctober 11, 2014

Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Republican-turned-Democrat former Gov. Charlie Crist agreed during a debate Friday that Ebola would be bad for Florida – and they disagreed about nearly everything else. In a contentious debate that reflected the negative tone of the campaign, Scott and Crist took opposite sides on issues including health care, the minimum […]

Gary FineoutOctober 10, 2014

Gov. Rick Scott and Democrat Charlie Crist are the only candidates that qualify for a Leadership Florida/Florida Press Association debate. Representatives from the groups said Wednesday that Libertarian Adrian Wyllie won’t be included in the Oct. 15 debate unless a poll shows he has stronger support by the end of the month. Candidates need at […]

Gary FineoutOctober 10, 2014

Gov. Rick Scott and Democrat Charlie Crist are the only candidates that qualify for a Leadership Florida/Florida Press Association debate. Representatives from the groups said Wednesday that Libertarian Adrian Wyllie won’t be included in the Oct. 15 debate unless a poll shows he has stronger support by the end of the month. Candidates need at […]

Guest AuthorOctober 9, 2014

The federal lawsuit filed Thursday by Libertarian Party candidate for governor, Adrian Wyllie, seeking to force his way in to next week’s debate between Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist is another case of history repeating itself. In 2006, Reform Party candidate for governor, Max Linn, filed a federal lawsuit in an effort […]

Bruce RitchieOctober 9, 2014

The debate season is here. Now maybe we can hear candidates for governor talk about what they plan to do over the next four years rather than what their opponents did years ago. The first debate between Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist is set for Friday at 7 p.m. on Telemundo. The […]

Martin DyckmanOctober 8, 2014

The campaign for governor strikes many Floridians as all sound and fury, signifying nothing but that too much money is being put to too little good. Some are even questioning why they should bother to vote. The answer is elemental. If they don’t, other people will be voting for them. At the end of the […]

Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2014

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is the reincarnation of Richard Nixon. “Tricky Dick,” the 37th U.S. president, was a walking thesaurus of negatives: imperious, secretive, draconian, paranoid, duplicitous, underhanded, and insincere — for starters. The committee formed to re-elect him — and that got him into Watergate trouble that led to his resignation — aptly went […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 6, 2014

It’s too late to register to vote in Florida’s 2014 elections. The deadline was yesterday. Now it’s up to determined Democratic activists to actually get people to vote. Otherwise, we’re looking at four more years of unchecked conservative extremists putting our government at the service of wealthy private interests, rather than you and me. Likely […]

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Daniel Tilson: What I learned eavesdropping on Scott-Crist coffee shop talk

Steve Vancore: Wyllie fails to meet polling threshold to qualify for debate

Little common ground in gubernatorial debate

Gubernatorial debate organizers to Libertarian Adrian Wyllie: ‘Drop dead!’

Gubernatorial debate organizers to Libertarian Adrian Wyllie: 'Drop dead!'

Jeff Kottkamp: History repeated with legal challenge over gubernatorial debate

Bruce Ritchie: Please ask an environmental question during gubernatorial debates

Martin Dyckman: Two huge reasons to vote — the courts, the state constitution

Stephen Goldstein: Florida’s Richard Nixon: “Tricky” Rick Scott

Daniel Tilson: Questions Democrats should ask people who don’t plan to vote