Poll Of Latino Voters In Florida Shows A Disaster In The Making For Donald Trump
According to a new survey, less than 13 percent of Latinos plan to vote for the Republican nominee in November. Was it something he said?
According to a new survey, less than 13 percent of Latinos plan to vote for the Republican nominee in November. Was it something he said?
“It had to be political because Donald Trump was treated differently than any other scam artist in the 16 years I was at the consumer protection office.”
Marco Rubio is being raked over the coals by Floridians for refusing to say why he won’t do his job, and even the Senate Judiciary Chair ringleader of Not Doing His Job Chuck Grassley is hanging Rubio out to dry.
Mr. Regalado’s endorsement comes at a time when the sea level has risen an unprecedented 5 inches all along the Atlantic coastline.
After invoking his status as a National Rifle Association hero, Jeb brought up GOP overreach in the case of Terri Schiavos
Billionaire Paul Singer is trying to buy influence, and in Rubio, he has found the perfect puppet to promote his agenda for the 1 percent.
The crux of the case against the Kochs, Bush, and Scott is that they conspired to build what appears to be “an illegally-approved pipeline”
Florida Libertarian Senate candidate August us Sol Invictus is bound to be an embarrassment for the Libertarian Party.
Rep. Adkins suggested packing a district with black prisoners who would be counted as residents, but who would unable to vote.
For Florida taxpayers, their trust in then-Governor Jeb Bush to protect their lifelong pension savings was wasted when he forged a highly-profitable relationship with Lehman Brothers that made Lehman and Bush millions. That special relationship was ultimately a certifiable disaster for Florida public employees.
What people should care about is a Republican presidential candidate not only lying about Clinton’s emails but about his own, making him not just a liar, but a hypocrite. I am talking about Exhibit B: Jeb Bush, alias “Jeb!”
Strategists fear Trump could badly lose a general election campaign, dragging a lot of Republican Senate candidates down with him.
The Florida legislature imploded on Friday as the Senate and House couldn’t agree on how to redraw the state’s legislative districts.
Neither Bush nor Rubio appears to be in a strong position to carry their home state, as they both trail Donald Trump in the latest poll.
It is science that explains our universe, and that it science – not a cherry-picked Bible – that provides us the means of that understanding
It is very seldom, if ever, that any Republican purposely admits in public that their raison d’etre is solely to serve the interests of corporations and the very richest Americans, and it is doubtful they expected the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to expose their badly-kept secret, but he did; albeit inadvertently.
Although the Florida Republican Party has one-party control of the state government, they are simply unable and unwilling to govern.
President Barack Obama plans to visit the Florida Everglades on Wednesday to highlight the urgency of tackling climate change.
While Jeb Bush is often portrayed by the media as the “moderate” Republican candidate, there is nothing moderate about his proposal to raise the social security retirement age.
The Republican presidential contenders offer no alternative policy for dealing with Iran other than saber-rattling rhetoric.
At a prayer breakfast, Duck Dynasty star, Phil Robertson fantasized aloud about an atheist family being raped, tortured, and murdered.
There is a misconception among ignorant Americans that this nation was founded on the tenets of the bible and is therefore a Christian nation
Friday morning, at CPAC, Senator Rubio told an audience that he had learned that his previous support for immigration reform was a mistake.
On Thursday evening, The Guardian published a report claiming six people who worked with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly during the 1992 Los Angeles riots have disputed his past remarks that he was attacked by protesters and concrete rained down on him.
Calling February 11 a day of action, activists staged protests in approximately three dozen Congressional offices on Wednesday.
Hillary Clinton has large leads over the field of GOP contenders in three key swing states.
Florida’s AG, Pam Bondi, believes that only men and women should marry each other… many times, as in her case. She is opposed, however, to marriage equality among people of the same sex.
Tom DeLay said, “Frankly, I think this could also be payback by Obama to those Cubans who normally support Republicans”
Though there has seemed no reason for the two nations to remain at odds over the past 20+ years, old animosities die hard. Though a small step, this announcement is but one of many we will see in coming days, and it is a long overdue step, one refreshingly taken in the right direction.
Obviously many Americans do have myriad reasons to be thankful they live in an extremely wealthy and semi-free nation such as the United States, but there are tens-of-millions who are likely only thankful they are able to survive an increasingly hostile corporate oligarchy and inhumane Republican party.
You don’t have to approve of a religion to understand and accept that every religion is on equal footing in the United States
It appears it wasn’t just long lines and machine ‘malfunctions’ that possibly helped get Rick Scott reelected. While voting late Tuesday afternoon, Izak Pratt of Broward County noticed a poll worker giving inaccurate information to a black man who was attempting to cast his vote.
We are the victims of voter suppression and intimidation. Our votes were overridden with dark money and corporate-funded propaganda
During Monday night’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow discussed popular ballot measures in a number of red or swing states that could help swing the tide in many close gubernatorial or Senate races.
On Monday, a day after he told Fox News he had “no second thoughts” about his decision to forcibly quarantine a nurse who had just returned from West Africa, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reversed course and announced that he was allowing Kaci Hickox to return to her home in Maine.
Conservatives are terrified of a well-educated populace, and for over a year the terror du jour is Common Core that the great majority of conservative Christian fear-mongers have little-to-no comprehension of what it entails.
This is the GOP of the 21st century – secretive and extreme – a party that pretends to populism but which despises the populace and its rights
This week, political news site Politico released a poll showing that Democrats are at a seven-point disadvantage against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. The poll is supposed to reflect voter sentiments in the most competitive House and Senate races this year.
Although it is tragic that racial animus is not a prosecutable crime, there are instances when the result of racism can be prosecuted. Yesterday a Florida jury convicted a man for expressing racial animus with a firearm.
Michael Dunn will probably receive a long prison sentence, but for the shots that missed, rather than the shot that killed Jordan Davis.
In a poll released on Wednesday by the University of Florida, Democrat and former Florida Governor Charlie Crist holds a 7-point lead over current Republican Governor Rick Scott. This is pretty much in line with other recent polls showing Crist with a comfortable lead over Scott as we start inching towards Election Day. The…
In the most recent Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday, Florida voters continued to voice their displeasure for current Republican Governor Rick Scott as Democrat Charlie Crist now leads 46%-38%.
Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) has stated that he will resign from Congress effective 6:30 PM ET on Monday. The embattled Republican Congressman has been an embarrassment to the GOP ever since he got arrested buying cocaine from an undercover agent in Washington, D.C. in November of last year.
Republicans have created a new conservative super PAC to support Republican secretaries of state that will pursue restrictive voter laws, purge voter rolls, and generally kill the democratic process.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven struck down a 2011 Florida law requiring welfare applicants to undergo drug tests.
Minimum wage workers in over a dozen US states have something to celebrate as they ring in the new year — a pay raise.
The Commonwealth Fund found that states rejecting Medicaid money will lose billions over time.
A UN report coming out Monday reveals that world climate scientists are 95 percent confident that we humans are causing global warming
Pastor Terry Jones again tried to incite violence on September 11th. His vile actions deserve to land him in a maximum security facility.
It is no surprise that Rick Perry now finds himself being investigated for abuse of office charges and coercion revolving around the Texas Public Integrity Unit.
In Florida, it’s deja vu all over again. Rick Scott is back in the business of purging the vote. The last time Scott tried this, 182,000 people were put on an initial list based on DMV records.
Market-based educational reform is an utter failure, and yet we still can’t shake the nasty remnants of its bad policy influence
Republicans are on a tear to disable the federal government’s ability to serve the people much like Republican-controlled states like Michigan and Florida.
With union power waning, governments are implementing workers’ rights. It’s time to build a national movement built on grassroots efforts.
What King is looking for in a 2016 Republican is a Muslim-hating hawk who can get behind some truly Bushian and ruinous, economy-destroying defense spending
Part of white privilege is not realizing that, for young black men, “the rule of law” is not much protection at all.
Truth be told, the real trial and victor in the Trayvon Martin killing was not George Zimmerman, but the NRA authored and ALEC legislated the “Castle Doctrine Act” that has been acquitted.
Apparently, those who find themselves in violation of God’s law, lose their rights under Republican governance
There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with Medicare and Medicaid.
Florida Republican Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned abruptly Tuesday amid a gambling scandal and racketeering probe into Allied Veterans, a firm for which she once did public relations work.
There is a group of Americans attempting to force a segment of the population to give up their constitutional rights and it is not President Obama, but Republicans and their legislative arm ALEC.
As long as they’ve got decent insurance, a few bucks in the till, political contributions to the right people and a Supreme Court majority, corporations will always receive preferential treatment.
Sen. Boxer (D-CA) introduced a bill called the LINE Act, which is election reform legislation to address national standards for waiting times at the polls.
The Emancipation Proclamation ostensibly freed the slaves back in the midst of the Civil War. Modern day slavery camouflaged as grotesque unemployment numbers and economic status exists today.
The Florida man who shot a teenager because he felt threatened by the teen’s play of loud music is changing his story so that it will fit a stand your ground defense.
The 2012 election was especially satisfying for the Presidency and the new faces that will show up in Congress, especially the Senate.
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted wants to dramatically change electoral votes to favor Republicans, and make it nearly impossible for Democrats to win Ohio.
As the absentee vote count continues in Miami-Dade county. Post-election, Rick Scott should be investigated
Incredible amounts of money were spent on the 2012 General Election. And lots of that money was wasted when expensive attack ads didn’t work
In Florida, in 2008 8.4 million people voted; in 2010 only 5.3 million did. Margin of victory for Rick Scott? 1.2%.
Two suspicious packages caused authorities to shut down an early voting location in Winter Park, Florida for several hours today.
The American people, Vice President Biden said, want a President they can trust, and they know Romney doesn’t pass that test.
Don’t let any of these scams steal your vote, but most importantly don’t let them intimidate you. Stay alert, but vote.
As information unfolds from county election officials, the only thing that is clear is there is the letters do not appear to be targeting people from any specific political party.
Three Democratic Members of the House asked Eric Holder to order an investigation into alleged tampering in voter registration drives by two GOP firms.
Ken Detzner, silent about the GOP firm accused of voter registration fraud against Democrats, jumped into action when he thought Republicans were targeted.
The FBI is working with The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, to find the source of hoax letters received by voters in several Florida counties.
Former GOP Gov. Charlie Crist slayed the Republican myth that Obama isn’t bipartisan, saying, ‘this great president, came to Florida even though I was a Republican at the time.’
While campaigning in Florida today, President Obama used his strongest language yet to take on Mitt Romney’s strategy of lies and political amnesia.
The Obama campaign announced today that their voter registration and early voting margins in Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, and Florida are bigger than they were in 2008.
If you are part of the sane America who believes in our constitution, including the right to vote, you may want to vote in this election and be sure that it counts.
The swing state of Nevada is pumped up. 11,200 people waited in line during 90 degree heat to see Obama yesterday in Las Vegas.
Republicans have been complaining endlessly about the polls all being skewed towards Obama, so PPP gave conservatives the ‘unskewed’ results of their polling in Florida.
Ten counties in Florida alone are now reporting possible fraudulent voter registration forms turned in by the group hired by the Republican Party.
Registration fraud is a familiar tool in the Republican Party’s bag of tricks, and it is being used in Florida, California, and around the country.
Seven new swing state polls released today all came to the same conclusion. President Obama has at least a four point lead in Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
In Florida, while agreeing to a settlement with voter advocacy groups that had sued over the voter purge, behind the curtain Florida’s Republicans continues with the purge.
Republican Scott Van Duzer, famous for giving the best hug of the campaign to President Obama, is now being targeted at his business by angry Republicans.
As 11,000 enthusiastic supporters crammed into St. Petersburg to hear President Obama, Mitt Romney spoke to gathering of several hundred Republicans in an aircraft hanger in Virginia Beach.
Want to see just how wrong the mainstream media is about the ‘Obama enthusiasm gap’? Check out these pictures of thousands of fired up Floridians at today’s Obama rally in St. Petersburg.
The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
Rush Limbaugh is even blaming Obama for the weather. On his radio show, Limbaugh claimed that Hurricane Issac is an Obama conspiracy to shut down the Republican convention.
The GOP’s so called policy wonk spread lies about Medicare to America’s seniors that were taken from Koch Brothers funded television ads.
A Federal court partially struck down a Republican law that reduced the number of early voting days from 12 to eight.
Rachel Maddow shows us what a monumental mistake the Romney Campaign made in selecting the Kill Medicare Guy as his running mate
Does Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate signal his campaign is tacking to the right again, or is Ryan tacking left? It seems the first casualty will be Ryan’s near-universally reviled budget plan, but can Mitt really defang Ryan and get him ready for primetime?