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Economy and Foreclosures Make Latino Voters Moving Targets for Democrats
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIn 2008, nearly 70 percent of Latino voters supported Barack Obama and helped Democrats expand their majorities in the House and Senate. But two years later, a new survey shows that Hispanic voters are far less motivated than most other Americans to go to the polls, a finding that could have a major impact on key races in California, Nevada, Texas and Florida, where Latinos make up between 15 and 20 percent of registered voters. Leslie Sanchez, president of the Impacto Group and author of "Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other," said the the apathy among some Latinos ...
Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life: Can They Be One and the Same?
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThirty-seven years after the Supreme Court ruling legalized abortion, we are still struggling to find the right language to identify the opposing sides in a debate that will likely never end. Those who support abortion rights (or is reproductive rights?) call themselves pro-choice. Yet those who would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned recoil from the label anti-choice, and rightly so, and call themselves pro-life. A lot of the media have adopted the pro-life label as a matter of convenience, which infuriates the other side since those who support reproductive choice (yet another way to say ...
Jim DeMint: Conservative 'Kingmaker' or Inside-the-Beltway Interloper?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThanks to his aggressive involvement in a number of primary campaigns, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has been dubbed by some in the media as the conservative "kingmaker." But now, even some conservatives are quietly questioning whether that's an apt title. In recent months, DeMint has pulled a power play of sorts with his Senate Conservatives Fund, which essentially serves as a shadow National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). The PAC is run by Matt Hoskins, who also serves as DeMint's spokesman and who, according to one conservative who asked not to be named, "tries to be DeMint's 'big ...
Charlie Crist Holding Bare Lead in Three-Way Florida Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFlorida Gov. Charlie Crist, now in the state's Senate race as an independent, has a bare but statistically-insignificant lead over the man who forced him out of the GOP primary race, former state House speaker Marco Rubio, according to an Ipsos poll conducted May 14-18 for the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald/Bay News 9. Crist runs ahead of Rubio 30 percent to 27 percent with Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek way behind at 15 percent. The margin of error is 4 points. The poll contrasts with one conducted May 16 by Rasmussen Reports which had Rubio ahead 39 percent to 31 percent, largely ...
Charlie Crist's Early Lead in Florida Senate Race Evaporates
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe first polls on the Florida senate race after Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to run as an independent for Senate showed him with modest leads over likely Republican nominee Marco Rubio but the bloom appears to be off that rose with Rubio taking an 8 point lead over Crist, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 16. Rubio runs ahead of Crist by 39 percent to 31 percent with 18 percent for Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek and 12 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4.5 points. In polls conducted at the beginning of May by Rasmussen and Mason-Dixon Research, Crist had led Rubio ...
In Bringing Down Bob Bennett, Club for Growth Proves a Real 'Power Player'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyA few months ago, Chris Wallace of "Fox News Sunday" featured Club for Growth President Chris Chocola as a "Power Player of the Week." Last week, that status was confirmed. Thanks in large part to the Club for Growth -- a powerful, free market, pro-growth conservative organization -- on Saturday an incumbent Republican senator whose name had never been linked to scandal was simply denied his party's nomination. The ouster of Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah "marks the first time the Club's PAC has defeated an incumbent Republican senator," Chocola wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "It will set off a ...
Another Poll Puts Crist in the Lead in Florida -- But It May Be Short-Lived
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA second poll is showing Gov. Charlie Crist starting out in the lead now that he has made the Florida Senate race a three-way affair by dropping his failing bid for the Republican nomination to run as an independent. Crist runs ahead of likely GOP nominee Marco Rubio by 38 percent to 32 percent, with 19 percent for Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek. Eleven percent were undecided, according to a Mason-Dixon Research poll conducted May 3-5. The margin of error is 4 points. A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 3 had Crist ahead by 38 percent to 34 percent, with 17 percent for Meek. The margin of ...
Jeb Bush Backs Rubio Over Crist in Florida Senate Race
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer Gov. Jeb Bush has endorsed Marco Rubio for the Senate in Florida, giving an anticipated boost to the Republican hopeful in what looks like a three-ring circus of a campaign for an open seat. Gov. Charlie Crist, the Republican turned independent, holds a small lead in a Rasmussen Reports poll measuring support in a three-way contest matching him with Rubio and a Democrat, Rep. Kendrick Meek, in November. Bush, brother of former President George W. Bush (and Crist's predecessor as governor), said, "Washington is broken and Marco Rubio is the only candidate in this race that I trust to ...
Crist Starts His Independent Bid Slightly Ahead of Rubio in Florida
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFlorida Gov. Charlie Crist is starting with a lead in the three-way Senate race, running ahead of likely Republican nominee Marco Rubio by 38 percent to 34 percent with 17 percent for Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 3. The margin of error is 4.5 points. In a poll last month before Crist decided to drop out of the GOP primary race and run as an independent, Rubio had led a hypothetical three-candidate match-up with 37 percent to Crist's 30 percent, with Meek trailing at 22 percent. Crist has stronger favorablity numbers than the other two. ...
White House: Gov. Charlie Crist Never Reached Out to Rahm Emanuel
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe White House is denying reports that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist reached out to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel seeking administration support if he chose to run for the Senate as a Democrat. "It's not true," a spokesperson for the Chief of Staff's office told The Huffington Post Monday. Rumors had been circulating on blogs and in the press about Crist calling Emanuel to discuss a possible jump to the Democrats. The Atlantic reported Wednesday that Crist tried to contact the administration "through intermediates" and that the White House refused to take the call. Crist announced Thursday ...
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