The next time Matt updates the Senate rankings, you'll notice that my Florida ranking has been changed from "Leans Republican" to "Solid Republican." I had held some hope that maybe, just maybe, we could take the seat, but that was predicated on Charlie Crist winning the GOp primary, and that ship sailed. Rubio seems to be unstoppable, and my potential pick fave candidate doesn't...
Key Senate Vote: Want to stay in this evening? Sit back and watch the Senate debate health care reform on C-SPAN. Two weeks ago, the House took most of the night to complete their votes. This time around, the roll call in the Senate, expected around 8 p.m., will be even more dramatic. Biden In Iowa: No politician goes to Iowa by mistake, according to one of our favorite writers. Today, VP Biden will...
WHO WILL YOU ENDORSE IN FLORIDA SENATE RACE? Will You Endorse Stimulus-Supporting, President Obama Hugging Charlie Crist Or Club For Growth Endorsed Marco Rubio? Dear Governor Palin, I noticed that you will be in Florida next week to promote your new book Going Rogue. As you know, Florida is home to a competitive Senate race, with either Governor Charlie Crist or former state House Speaker Marco Rubio...
As you probably know, a group that I have dubbed The Infamous 53 , recently sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposing freedom for all Americans to travel to Cuba. Transcripts of the letter were available on the Internet. What was not ready available was the actual names of the 53. An alert reader of Cuba Journal sent to me a PDF file link with the text and the signatures and the names of the 53....
TALLAHASSEE -- Earlier this week, a cadre of Democratic voices from Alex Sink to Kendrick Meek called for Florida legislators to revisit their decision last spring not to expand jobless benefits and draw down an additional $444 million in federal...
FL Gov. Charlie Crist (R) leads ex-state House Speaker Marco Rubio by 10 points, down sharply from the huge advantage Crist held just a few months ago. According to a new poll from the independent firm Research 2000, conducted for the liberal DailyKos blog, Crist holds a 47% to 37% lead over Rubio. Rubio has attacked Crist from the right, blasting him for not opposing the economic stimulus package...
Robo poll from liberal DailyKos and Research 2000: Gov. Charlie Crist leads Rubio 47 percent to 37 percent among Republicans. In January, Crist led 57 percent to 11 percent. Among all voters, Crist beats Kendrick Meek 50-33, while Meek beats...
By William Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Congressman and Senate candidate Kendrick Meek reportedly gathered $20,750 of campaign contributions from medical-equipment firms this year while pushing a bill to end a new competitive bidding program for buying medical supplies through...
The Center for Public Integrity today is criticizing a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek that would get rid of a competitive bidding program for Medicare. "The dispute concerns so-called durable medical equipment — items like power wheelchairs and...
The Center for Public Integrity reports that a bill introduced by Rep. Kendrick Meek would scrap a competitive bidding program aimed at reducing fraud in the durable medical equipment business. "The bulk of the durable medical equipment industry, which lobbied...
U.S. Congressman Kendrick Meek, the Dem who could find himself running against Gov. Charlie Crist for U.S. Senate, wades into today's unemployment compensation finger-pointing. Here's his letter to Crist: November 18, 2009 The Honorable Charlie Crist Governor, State of Florida...
TALLAHASSEE -- U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, a Miami-Dade Democrat and U.S. Senate hopeful, is calling on state lawmakers to expand unemployment benefits in the wake of word that Florida will have to impose a huge increase in the unemployment compensation...
Like the proverbial sorority sister who "experimented" with kissing girls while an undergrad, I dabbled in Republican politics in my early 20s. Those were heady days: Newt Gingrich was Time Magazine's Man of the Year , former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith , among others, was infusing the GOP with compassionate conservatism and leaders like Jeb Bush towered over the political landscape....
It's been over two months since we last took stock of the open seat situation in the House, so, once again, our crack team of open seat forensic analysts down at SSP Labs have put together a new edition of the 2010 House Open Seat Watch. As always, we've compiled three separate lists: one of confirmed vacancies/retirements, another of potential open seats, and a third - available below the fold - of...
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