As of Tuesday afternoon, John Edwards' campaign staff members were still heading to North Dakota and Georgia. A television ad campaign was about to hit the airwaves. That evening, Edwards was flying here to deliver what was billed as a major speech on poverty. ...more

January 31, 2008

GAINESVILLE - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is scheduled to speak today at the University of Florida in Gainesville. ...more

January 15, 2008

When it comes to the issues, Dennis Kucinich is less amusing. His extremist positions make his candidacy difficult to take seriously. ...more

January 11, 2008

John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, gave Barack Obama a timely endorsement Thursday, snubbing Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as his own vice presidential running mate. ...more

January 11, 2008

Florida is having a dismal decade when it comes to presidential primaries. In 2000, Floridians voted in Republican and Democratic primaries on March 14. But the races had effectively ended four days earlier. ...more

January 6, 2008

It's been a busy year. But, then, you already knew that. After all, you were probably busy submitting video questions to presidential candidates on YouTube. Or infiltrating the audience at a John Kerry appearance. Or, you know, having a real life. ...more

January 1, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sheer will has taken John Edwards far, but only so far. His is the storybook life, still waiting for the storybook ending. ...more

December 29, 2007

This concerns Bud Morgan's demand for an apology. The intent of my column was to shed a different light on claims made in his "Legacy of Failure" guest column. At no time did I direct opinion against the writer. It's unfortunate if Mr. Morgan inferred otherwise and for that I truly apologize. Our First Amendment rights allow for us to express opinions freely, both his and mine. Ever since Vietnam and Sen. John Kerry calling our soldiers murderers and rapists, the national mood has changed. After the attack on 9/11 and America at war again, this time against Islamic terror, the division of the electorate seems to have become even greater. ...more

December 28, 2007

It's getting ugly out on the presidential campaign trail. Attack ads are heating up, so are tempers. And, as usual, few of the attacks are truthful and fudging the facts is raised to an art form. No one knows this better than Republican candidate Mike Huckabee. Huckabee, who has been surging in the polls for weeks, is taking a pounding in Iowa at the hands of some of the folks who bankrolled the Swift Boat fiasco. A Houston, Texas, home builder, who funded much of the unsubstantiated rumors surrounding the Sen. John Kerry presidential bid, has turned on a Republican. He claims Huckabee was a big spender as governor of Arkansas. It's true Huckabee spent taxpayer money in Arkansas. He admits this, and has a good reason why he did it. His state was one of the worst in the nation on education, and the state's poor school system was infamous around the nation. ...more

December 28, 2007

A conservative antitax group on Wednesday expanded its ad campaign against Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, helped by a major GOP donor who bankrolled ads that questioned Democrat John Kerry's war record during the 2004 campaign. ...more

December 27, 2007