Florida Elections

Ohio was billed as the main battleground in the 2012 presidential election, but Florida was generating more talk Election Night. “The story right now has got to be Florida, Florida, Florida,” CNN's Wolf Blitzer said at 9:30. “Can you...

TALLAHASSEE – Cockroaches have a survival instinct to scurry from the light. And so do some of Florida’s highest-paid elections lawyers and consultants, who have done their darnedest this year to cover up the financing behind their advertising...

When the Orlando Sentinel asked Orange County Judge Antoinette Plogstedt recently about a Central Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers poll which ranked her the lowest among her peers, she replied that “it's an election year and strange...

The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE –  Buoyed by a few big contributions, a political committee closely linked to Gov. Rick Scott collected $560,000 in May — bringing its total this year to slightly more than $2.5 million, according to a...

TALLAHASSEE – In a sign of judicial-branch combat to come, a state legislator is asking Gov. Rick Scott to launch an investigation into the Florida Supreme Court's bizarre, eleventh-hour shuffle last Friday to get its election paperwork filed on...

TALLAHASSEE — So what do President Barack Obama, Tallahassee political consultants, and the national debt have to do with today's mayoral contest in Altamonte Springs? Well, if you're aspiring future House Speaker Chris Dorworth, R-Lake Mary, they...

TALLAHASSEE — As expected, Lawton “Bud” Chiles III dropped his independent bid for governor Thursday, saying he was afraid his continued candidacy would tilt the race toward Republican Rick Scott, whom he described as “someo...

Every debate word between Republican Christine O'Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons -- and there were a lot of them....

PERRY – With hundreds of thousands of ballots already cast in the governor’s race, Alex Sink is scrounging for votes in small North Florida communities with a style reminiscent of Democratic candidates of decades past – appealing to their...

By Aaron Deslatte and John Maines More than 2 million Florida voters have already cast their ballots and more than $126 million has been spent on ads by candidates for governor, the Cabinet, the Florida Legislature and judicial branch this election...

Since political candidates don't spend nearly enough money to get elected, Florida's state Senate is trying to remedy that sad state of affairs. How? By raising the contribution limits. Just what we need – more opportunities for special interests to...

By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Wednesday celebrated a Democratic victory in a special congressional election in New York, which she called a rejection of Republican...