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UPDATE 2/12: Henrietta Hughes and Chene Thompson talk about the new house Hughes is living in: Henrietta Hughes appeared on CNN's American Morning T...
UPDATE 2/12: Henrietta Hughes and Chene Thompson talk about the new house Hughes is living in: Henrietta Hughes appeared on CNN's American Morning T...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
President Obama went to Fort Myers, Florida Tuesday to highlight the desperate need for an economic recovery package. Unemployment in the area is up t...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
FORT MYERS, Fla. — President Barack Obama has gone from worrying about bipartisanship to worrying about re-election. He was on the road again T...
Ron Levitt | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
After back-slapping because the state's 27 electoral votes went for President-elect Barack Obama, not-all-too-polite political activity became the norm in the Peninsula State.
AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
MIAMI — More Floridians voted for John McCain than Barack Obama on Election Day, but the Democrat sealed his victory in the state by winning mor...
David Paul Appell | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
You'd think if anyone would appreciate that civil rights are civil rights, it's black Americans. And that's what makes the support of some among them of such bigotry particularly appalling.
Bill Marovitz | Posted 12.04.2008 | Chicago
Come the evening of November 4th, we will be on a new path to change the direction of our country and tell the whole world that the America they used to respect is back.
Salon | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
In recent weeks, a calm certainty seems to have settled over most of the liberals I know. After the last two elections, I can't convince myself to be ...
Ari Melber | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
On this last day before the election, Sen. Barack Obama is urging voters to relive some humiliating history. Speaking in Jacksonville, Florida, Obama...
John Hood | Posted 12.02.2008 | Home
MIAMI--Pulling up to the North Dade Regional Library in the inner city suburb of Miami Gardens for one of Florida's numerous early voter rallies, the ...
Rep. Robert Wexler | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
Don't let scurrilous emails, ugly insinuations and wishful thinking distract you from the larger reality: the Jewish community is behind Barack Obama.
The Ballot Box | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
**By Insiyah Seeed** WEST TAMPA, Fla., 12:35 a.m. -- Part of Obama's grassroots strategy in Florida is to get minorities -- especially the Latino com...
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
As 20,000 Obama supporters streamed into the BankAtlantic center to see Obama's aptly titled Sunrise Rally, a small but valiant detachment of McCain...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
Jewish Democrat officials are making a late election push to ensure that Barack Obama secures the large percentages of Jewish community support that p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
The Obama campaign is, not surprisingly, ecstatic with the decision by Florida's Republican Gov. Charlie Crist to extend early voting hours in his sta...
John Hood | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home
MIAMI --- George, er, Jason isn't joking around -- Jason Alexander, that is, the funny man who will forever be mostly known as George Costanza. Not th...
Pia Sawhney | Posted 11.22.2008 | Home
Though Obama winning the race when it comes to raising money, there's a chance voters may not come around in a few crucial county races in Florida. And a bumbling McCain could endure.
Carol Anne Burger | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home
What gives strength to the fabric of American society? Jobs do, that's what, and that was the message delivered by Barack Obama to an audience at the ...
Alison Teal | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
The debates are over but the campaign goes on and on... and on. We need it to be over, but there's still so much to be done. And will it even be over when it's over?
Brian Ross | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home
Most of the poll workers are elderly, and not particularly adept at using the computers. My agent took almost five minutes to find me in the system and issue me a ballot. One woman who exited the polling place after half an hour was apparently dead, even though she looked quite well.
Orlando Sentinel | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
How big a push is Obama making in Florida? Not only will he be in Orlando on Monday with Clinton to kick off early voting in the state, now the campai...
Ron Levitt | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home
Just three weeks before Election Day, Florida has a blue tinge! Sunshine State Democrats - mindful of the fiasco in 2000 which gave the Presidency t...
John Hood | Posted 11.11.2008 | Home
"Traditionally Republican Latinos in Florida are moving in Barack's direction," said Menendez. "Earlier today we were at a senior citizen's center, hard core conservatives, yet overwhelmingly there was support for Obama."
John Hood | Posted 11.09.2008 | Home
Over and over, the least cordial man in politics tried to insist that he was a friend; and again and again a roomful of genuinely friendly folks groaned otherwise.
The Atlantic | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
The Obama campaign's top two field generals have decamped to Florida, a sign of its confidence that the state, with 27 electoral votes, is tilting tow...
Katharine Zaleski | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics