With Florida's presidential primary slated for Jan. 29, the truth that all politics are local is coming to Tampa and with repercussions global and historic in scope. ...more

January 16, 2008

TAMPA - A new Quinnipiac University poll shows a statistical four-way dead heat in the Republican presidential primary in Florida, where Rudy Giuliani is making an all-out effort to win the state. ...more

January 14, 2008

The tax changes on the ballot with the presidential primary are a stew of legislative leftovers sure to give the state heartburn. ...more

January 14, 2008

Starting Jan. 14, Floridians will get to do something they haven't done in more than a decade: Cast a meaningful vote in a presidential primary. ...more

January 6, 2008

This time, it really matters. Starting about mid-January, the national political spotlight will focus on Florida with a laser-like intensity we haven't seen since the infamous 2000 presidential recount. ...more

January 6, 2008

Starting Jan. 14, Floridians will get to do something they haven't done in more than a decade: Cast a meaningful vote in a presidential primary. ...more

January 6, 2008

SEBRING — Love Hillary or hate her, Sen. Clinton's name was on everyone's lips. Likely voters in the presidential primary were interviewed Friday morning at Lakeshore Mall. Clinton has turned into a politician well known by her first name. "I haven't really honed-in on anyone," said Francis Carson, a registered non-partisan who's from upstate New York. "But it won't be Hillary. "I like Obama, I just don't think he's got the experience," Carson said. He winters in Lake Placid because, unlike his home state Lake Placid, the Florida lake gets no snow. Harold Hoxit, also of Lake Placid, feels just the opposite about Clinton. "I haven't made up my mind, exactly, but I like Hillary. She's a Democrat for one thing, and I like her husband. He did a good job while he was in there, and I think she would too. I think it's time for a change." ...more

December 29, 2007

In April, when 2,000 people jammed the Cuban Club courtyard in Ybor City to see Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, it was the most exciting event yet in this presidential campaign season, and convinced Obama supporters he could challenge frontrunner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York in Florida. ...more

December 18, 2007

it shows Rudy Giuliani losing the lead to Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. ...more

December 15, 2007

With his frontrunner status in the GOP presidential primary in jeopardy, Rudy Giuliani will give a major speech in Tampa on Saturday that top campaign aides hope will "mark a turning point in the campaign." ...more

December 14, 2007