Finally.

And so, if only by remorseless process of elimination, at long last the big A wins the pool. I had Nelson and Ayotte as next to flip in the last SSM thread; there are only something like six Democrats in the Senate who haven’t switched yet, so I was bound to be right soon. Kudos [...]

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Values.

Via John McCormack at the Weekly Standard, some words of wisdom from the Kermit Gosnell school of “women’s health.” Say this much for her: As monstrous as this is, at least she’s consistent. It’s a strange mindset that would suddenly demand that a doctor rescue a baby in peril after giving him the green light [...]

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Shakin' my head.

I threw this story up in the Green Room during the week, but here’s some video with a few more details about the Florida state legislator proposing that law-abiding citizens seeking to purchase ammunition for their firearms should have to take an anger management program first. I repeat, we’re not even talking about a gun [...]

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Cave.

Looks like Florida’s abstention from designing their own health insurance exchange system was not a precursor of things to come, as Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced this afternoon that he’ll be joining the ranks of the other GOP governors in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, and Ohio who have also given in to the [...]

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Snake eyes!

It seems the results are in from Florida’s latest great experiment in environmental adventurism. For those who somehow missed the story, the Sunshine State has been seeking ways to deal with the new, imported alpha predator in their swamps… the Burmese Python. They’re overrunning the state, eating cats, dogs and small alligators, and frightening parents. [...]

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No can do.

The clock ran down today on ObamaCare’s already-extended deadlines for states to figure out whether they’d be formulating their own state-run health insurance exchanges, resigning the task over to the federal government, or forging some kind of partnership — and three more GOP-led states have reported that they’re officially disinclined to acquiesce the Obama administration’s [...]

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Principle.

If you don’t have time for the whole segment, enjoy 75 golden seconds starting at 3:00 in which Matthews presses him on how a former Republican turned “independent” can suddenly embrace Democratic orthodoxy from soup to nuts. Pay special attention at 3:45 as Crist segues, without missing a beat, from his self-serving shpiel about common [...]

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Who could have predicted this?

In a stunning turn of events which likely shock …. nobody, former Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist announced on Friday that he was now Florida Democrat Hoping To Be Governor Charlie Crist. Crist sent out a tweet that said, “Proud and honored to join the Democratic Party in the home of President (at)Barack Obama!” The [...]

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Dynasty.

I sure am. Nothing says “new, young, vibrant GOP” like nominating George W. Bush’s 60-something-year-old brother, who’ll have held no political office for nearly 10 years by election day 2016. Try to wrap your mind around the fact that, if you had to give odds right this minute, the likeliest presidential match-up four years from [...]

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He'll be back.

One of the last Election Day questions has been answered after two weeks of fumbling by official in St. Lucie County, Florida.  The recanvasses and recount of the vote has left Rep. Allen West over 1900 votes short of victory, and early this morning West conceded the race to Patrick Murphy: Florida Rep. Allen West — the [...]

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Irregularities

I’m sure glad that election is finally over, aren’t you? Now we can move on to the pressing issues facing the country. Or… maybe not. In Florida, (yes, the same Florida) the 18th congressional district is still slugging it out as Representative Allen West struggles to hang on to his seat. The initial count had [...]

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Pending.

Rep. Allen West and perhaps-Rep.-elect Patrick Murphy (he’s already on Capitol Hill for orientation-type stuff this week, anyway) fought a hard race for West’s House seat out of his newly-redrawn Florida district — it turned out to be the most expensive House race in the country, and it went right down to the wire — [...]

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Second wave.

Of the eighteen states with polling stations closing within the 8 — 8:59 PM Eastern window, the three we’re concerned about, of course, are Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), and New Hampshire (4). As Allahpundit summed up in his handy-dandy Electoral Math Made Easy primer yesterday, winning Florida is basically a prerequisite for the Romney campaign; [...]

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270.

What follows will be old hat to most readers, who’ve been wargaming paths to 270 for six months now, but I’m thinking it might be useful to casual readers who are stopping by tonight and tomorrow because their interest in the election is peaking. Simple question: Which states does Romney need to win to clinch [...]

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Sunshine.

According to a new poll by the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald, we can put Florida firmly into Mitt Romney’s column.  With just three days left for campaigning, Romney has a 51/45 lead over Barack Obama in a state Obama won by three in 2008.  Romney even takes an edge in foreign policy now [...]

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Chin up.

Echoing Obama campaign manager Jim Messina‘s tone yesterday, DNC Chairwoman and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was all confidence on MSNBC last night, poo-pooing the idea that Team Romney and conservative groups’ efforts could realistically expand the map at this point. I’m sure that they’re going to go swimming in the kitchen sink at this [...]

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"I don't just talk about change."

General knowledge seems to be starting to lean towards “Romney has pretty much nailed down Florida,” but I suppose you can never be too careful, and Romney is taking today to campaign in the Sunshine State with popular GOPers Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush by his side before moving on to Virginia [...]

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... with D+8, D+7, D+8 samples.

We’re down to the final week of the election, where we’d normally expect to see pollsters fine-tuning their samples in order to get the most predictive survey results ahead of the election.  It’s refreshing, therefore, to see the CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac partnership decide to buck that trend and stick with consistency.  Their polls in the most hotly [...]

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Plus, Romney spending in Minnesota?

I’m actually a little torn on whether to rely much on the new Sunshine State News poll coming out of Florida today.  They have a decent track record in their own state, and as they report, their poll matches up with most other polling in Florida over the last week or two.  However, their cross-tab [...]

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Are they even trying anymore?

Last night’s debate-focus was meant to stick to foreign policy, but President Obama managed to get in a few shots proudly touting his signature auto-industry bailout and criticizing how Mitt Romney would’ve handled the situation — which would’ve been fine, I suppose, if he hadn’t grossly mischaracterized how Mitt Romney would’ve handled the situation. Team [...]

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Foreign policy.

9 p.m. ET all across the dial except for Fox, which will carry Game 7 of the NLCS. Between that and “Monday Night Football,” it’s a lead-pipe cinch that this will be the lowest-rated of the three debates, especially since people typically don’t vote based on foreign policy anyway. This “Onion” preview of the debate [...]

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"I don't know if one more debate could make it up."

Bear in mind that Chuck Todd is using the WaPo/ABC poll from this morning for part of his analysis, and you can see just how bad things are going for Team Obama.   While I agree with Todd on the momentum shift, I’m not as sure it’s recent, but I do think the debate was [...]

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Not from The Onion

I would have brought this story up earlier, but the first couple of times I saw it mentioned on Twitter I’d assumed that it was either a joke, an article from The Onion, or some sort of intentional hoax. But as it turns out, at least according to the local news, the state of Florida’s [...]

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