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Two days after 2012 GOP front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry were in Miami, Vice-President Joe Biden will be making a swing through South Florida Friday.
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Two days after 2012 GOP front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry were in Miami, Vice-President Joe Biden will be making a swing through South Florida Friday.
Half of all Florida voters surveyed in the latest Quinnipiac University poll say they disapprove of Gov. Rick Scott's job performance.
President Barack Obama laid out a plan to reduce the federal deficit Monday with a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes. It was immediately met with criticism in South Florida from both tax opponents and from his own supporters.
South Florida still hasn't passed the peak of hurricane season, but if a major hurricane does hit the state, aid from the federal government may not come fast.
In his first year on Capitol Hill, South Florida 22nd Congressional District Representative Allen West has quickly become a strong conservative voice and a lightning rod for criticism from Democrats.
President Barack Obama's re-election chances will hinge on swing-states like Florida. But, new polling from Quinnipiac University finds that voters in the Sunshine State are not happy with the President over the debt deal.
The debt ceiling debate in Washington is hitting the South Florida airwaves.
Many in the state of Florida rely on Social Security and Medicare as a lifeline, but as the days countdown to a U.S. default, everyone in the Sunshine State has reason to worry.
Florida Democrats criticized Republican Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday because he's planning a vacation out of state, while he's talked in the past about the need to boost tourism in Florida to help the economy.
Florida Governor Rick Scott's polling numbers continue to fall harder than the Florida Marlins in the month of June.
Democrats are criticizing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for joking with a group of out-of-work Floridians that "I'm also unemployed."
President Barack Obama could be looking at an uphill battle if he hopes to have Florida's support going into the 2012 election.
Florida GOP Governor Rick Scott signed into law a massive, controversial overhaul of the state's election system Thursday morning.
The 2011 legislative session briefly careened off the track before crashing to an end early Saturday morning amid an intraparty GOP fracas over the nearly $70 billion budget.
South Florida's seniors may be able to breathe a slight sigh of relief Thursday after senior Republicans in Washington said a controversial plan to overhaul Medicare and Social Security is likely off the table, according to the Washington Post.
The battle over the budgets is pitting party against party and causing intraparty fights as Democrats and Republicans cut the budget, except in their district.
Governor Rick Scott just got a big political smackdown and many of his fellow Republicans helped administer it.
It's Election Day for several candidates vying for state offices, and the results were too close to call hours after the polls closed Tuesday night.
In effort to sway Hispanic voters away from the Democratic Party, the new Hispanic Action Network is meeting in Miami to discuss ways to improve the GOP's outreach to the Latino population.
Former state Senator Rod Smith has been tapped to lead Florida's Democratic Party. A former prosecutor from the Gainesville area, Smith will replace former Congresswoman Karen Thurman.
President Barack Obama's tax-cut deal with the GOP leadership was supposed to be a bi-partisan plan. Instead, it's drawing bi-partisan fire as it makes its way through Congress.
The battle over the Obama-GOP tax cut compromise passed its first hurdle in the Senate Monday evening after a test vote received a filibuster-proof majority.
Time is running out for more than 100 thousand Floridians who rely on extended unemployment benefits to survive.
