The series of anti-SOPA activism going on today has already claimed an early victory. Marco Rubio, the Florida Senator and Tea Party favorite, dropped his support after being a co-sponsor of the bill. Home to the Disney World and Universal Studios theme parks, Rubio’s Florida may be the most Hollywood-centric state outside California, and Rubio [...]

My response to this San Stein story about the fast-growing Hispanic demographic reality that will imperil the GOP is that it’s a story, but maybe not as big as this makes it out to be. On May 26, the Census released what an official at the bureau described as “the latest, most up to date [...]

The Latino vote increased sharply for Democrats, particularly in the West, helping to determine key Senate races in Colorado, Nevada and California. The Pew Hispanic Center reports that Democrats picked up the Latino vote by 64-34, and remember that includes Cubans in Florida voting for a Latino Republican for US Senate. Even in states like [...]

The next Senator from Florida is almost certainly going to be Marco Rubio. Kendrick Meek and Charlie Crist split the center-left of the electorate and spent most of their time in the campaign beating each other up, while Rubio, unchallenged, coasted into the lead. It was always possible at the end that there would be [...]

The race in Florida for the US Senate is among the most unique and interesting in the country. We saw in 2006 in Connecticut a three-man race, but the Republican Alan Schlesinger quickly became an also-ran, and Joe Lieberman benefited. In this race, each candidate claims a plausible path to victory; tea party conservative Marco [...]

Now this could have major consequences for the Florida Senate campaign ahead: Gov. Charlie Crist personally signed off on his former Republican party chairman’s confidential fundraising gig with the state party — according to Jim Greer’s attorney, whose allegation contradicts the governor’s statement that he “didn’t know anything” about the deal now part of a [...]

We’re seeing an interesting dynamic in the Florida Senate race. Charlie Crist has maintained a lead in the general election polls through support from Democrats, turning Kendrick Meek into a kind of spoiler candidate from a polling standpoint. From a policy standpoint, however, Meek seems to be driving the responses, at least from Charlie Crist. [...]

When Charlie Crist left the Republican Party in desperation, knowing he was toast in a US Senate primary against Marco Rubio, he left the door open for reimbursing donors who supported him when he was a Republican. Now that the polls look better for him, Crist has quietly told those donors to shove it. A [...]

BP has moved their containment dome into position today, and its CEO touted progress in containing the massive underwater gusher spewing thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day. In addition, the company has started to set the Gulf on fire again, with another set of controlled burns. None of this [...]

Republicans have spent a couple years now answering any question about climate change and energy independence with the dishonest slogan “Drill baby drill!” It’s simplistic enough to have worked for the past couple years. But the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (and which oil industry flak wrote this NY Times piece today minimizing the [...]

In a press conference concluded just moments ago, Charlie Crist, the Governor of Florida, announced he would end his campaign for US Senate as a Republican and run with no party affiliation. This sets up a likely three-way race for the Florida seat between Crist, Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek. “My decision to [...]