Jim Piccillo lost his job as a bank vice president in August, applied for food stamps to support his two young daughters and swore off a life of loyal...
St. Petersburg Times | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
Florida Republican leaders hastily convened a top secret meeting this week to grapple with Sen. John McCain's sagging performance in this must-win sta...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Recently trailing or tied, Democrat Barack Obama now leads Republican John McCain in a trio of the most critical, vote-rich states ...
St. Petersburg Times | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics
Five weeks ago, the St. Petersburg Times convened a group of Tampa Bay voters who were undecided about the presidential election. Their strong distrus...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
On Tuesday, Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sent a video to reporters laying out the political landscape with less than 50 days until the ...
Politico | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
In a new video sent out with a fundraising email to supporters, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe celebrates McCain "admit[ting] finally that the e...
St. Petersberg Times | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama could be on the verge of falling out of contention in Florida. Despite spending an estimated $8-million on campaign ads in America's big...
Miami Herald | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
The Muslim-peddling about Democratic nominee Barack Obama continues, mostly through lies trafficked over the Internet, but also in questions raised in...
Robin Maxwell | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
Tell me I'm dreaming! It can't possibly be true -- the People of the Holocaust, the most persecuted group in the history of the world are refusing to vote for a man because he's black?
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home
In the days before the conventions begin, Obama has taken a solid lead in Minnesota, leads outside the margin of error in Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Mexico, and he is within 2% in red Florida, North Carolina, Nevada.
WSJ | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
In Florida's living rooms, the presidential contest so far has been a landslide -- Barack Obama, 9,785; John McCain, zero. That is the tally of local...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home
In a surprise move, the Obama campaign has asked that the Florida and Michigan delegates to the Democratic convention be seated with full votes, embracing the Clinton camp and underlining the inevitability of his nomination.
Washington Post | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's two-day campaign swing through economically hard-hit areas of Central Florida and John McCain's country concert extravaganza in the Pan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
John McCain is usually the candidate getting heckled and interrupted on the trail, a product of his open town halls but also the more controversial as...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama is set to open more than a dozen offices in Florida in the next two weeks alone, a commitment of resources that his campaign says wi...
Miami Herald | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
State Sen. Frederica Wilson had a question for Barack Obama the last time he was in Miami and gave a speech at a posh, downtown hotel: When was he com...
Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac travels to South Florida to find out if Barack Obama can win the elderly Jewish vote. [WATCH] ...
Miami Herald | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Democrat Barack Obama outraised Republican John McCain by nearly $500,000 in Florida in June, validating his decision to rebuff limited public campaig...
South Florida Sun Sentinel | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
An escalating number of voters registering as Democrats is providing evidence that the 2008 election could produce a wave of support for Barack Obama ...
Sherman Yellen | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
Simply said, my mother would have voted for Obama to keep her promise to the future, "for the sake of the kids. I hope that many of those in Florida, and elsewhere, planning to vote for McCain think again.
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home
An eagerly anticipated set of swing-state polls suggest Obama's support is reaching toward the levels boasted by Clinton last month, signaling a unifying Democratic base.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
The topic-de-jour in Campaign 08 on Thursday was the National Catastrophe Fund, a pocket of loot that would help states to stabilize the insurance mar...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
Obama is strong in the Rockies and weak in the Appalachians. His map is tilted to the west. He may well win Col. and even Nev. in the general election but how does that balance against Ohio, Penn. Fl.?
Politico | Lanny Davis | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
Here are two important neutral principles that should guide the Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee when they meet May 31 to decide whethe...
Election Central | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama is now floating a compromise on the Florida situation, telling the St. Petersburg Times that one idea would be to cut the delegations' si...
New York Times | Damien Cave | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics