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In this frame grab from video, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio takes a sip of water during his Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, on Feb. 12, 2013,
Rubio Intervenes in Florida Primary Move
Sen. Marco Rubio was behind a last-minute change on the final day of Florida’s legislative session to move the state’s presidential primaryelection into compliance with national party rules. Rubio, a Republican, might well be on that ballot. But that’s not...
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Charles "Charlie" Crist in Washington.
Crist’s Second Chance: Beating Scott
Charlie Crist, the only Florida governor to willingly decline a second term, looks well positioned if he wants his old job back. The second poll in as many days shows the Republican-turned-independent-turned Democrat leading incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Scott trailing...
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Chris Christie, Oz, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, at the conclusion of the closing session of the National Governors Association 2013 Winter Meeting in Washington, on Feb. 25, 2013.
Dr. Oz’s Pocket Nuts: Christie Noting?
As the star of “The Dr. Oz Show” delivered a half-hour speech today to a majority of the nation’s governors, seated a few feet to his left was his No. 1 pupil: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Well, the potential...
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An attendee holds a rifle at the Rocky Mountain Gun Show in Sandy, Utah, on Jan. 7, 2012.
Gun Lobby Helps Block Data Collection by Crimefighters
For two weeks, bullets pierced two dozen cars driven through Detroit’s suburbs as police puzzled over who was firing. Unlike most states, Michigan has a tool that helped lead to an arrest: a pistol registry. Without that database of buyers and sellers,...
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Charles "Charlie" Crist, governor of Florida, waits for President Barack Obama to speak in Washington.
Florida’s Scott Hears Footsteps — Loudest Coming from Charlie Crist
Updated at 3:45 pm EST Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott, a former chief executive officer at HCA Holdings, could lose his 2014 re-election bid to several hypothetical opponents, including former Gov. Charlie Crist, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and...
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Albert Gomez talks on the phone at his office in Miami, Florida.
Cuban-Americans: Generational Shift Helped Elect, Re-Elect Obama
Abelardo and Lucy Gomez, like many of their generation who fled Cuba, have voted for every Republican U.S. presidential candidate for the past 40 years. Their son is another story. Albert Gomez, 39, who works in the family business in...
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott expressed his disappointment about the supreme court's decision concerning the health care bill. Photograph by Steve Cannon/AP Photo
After Obama-Vote, Scott Drops Opposition to ‘Obama-care’
President Barack Obama has been Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s biggest political foil. Scott launched his political career from Tea Party rallies in 2009 opposing the president’s 2010 health care law. On the campaign trail in 2010, many of his TV...
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Placards supporting President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney are seen near Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, on Oct. 20, 2012
Florida Democrats Request One Million Mail Ballots
Florida Democrats will celebrate a campaign milestone today: getting their one-millionth voter to request a mail ballot for the first time. That’s a threshold Republicans crossed in 2008. Still, it’s already 160,000 more than Democrats requested four years ago and...
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T. Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capital LLC.
Pickens: Money Misspent on Senate
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens says he’s “fed up” with Washington.He recalls one of his greatest victories as once getting Republican Senator Tom Coburn to sign off on an energy proposal that included a natural gas user-fee. “He wouldn’t pay a...
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John Kasich, governor of Ohio, at the Republican National Convention.
Florida’s 2 1/2 Hour Drive to the Tampa Convention
Florida’s delegation has great seats for the Republican National Convention. If they could only get there. As punishment for defying the national party’s calendar and scheduling an early presidential primary, the host state’s delegates were given hotel rooms 30 miles...
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