http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Political Currents 60 Tue, 20 May 2008 13:56:14 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/514770.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/514770.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:31 EDT Students at Sacred Heart University took snapshots and sought autographs from Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday as Hillary Clinton's daughter pitched her as the Democratic candidate to support in Puerto Rico's June 1 primary. http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/512625.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/512625.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:46 EDT President René Préval on Sunday chose an international banking official to be the troubled country's next prime minister, a Haitian lawmaker said. http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/503587.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/503587.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:04 EDT Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo won a historic victory in Paraguay's presidential election Sunday, ending more than six decades of one-party rule with a mandate to help the nation's poor and indigenous. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/528778.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/528778.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT Faced with $5 billion in cuts to the state budget, Broward lawmakers spent most of their time in Tallahassee this year playing defense as they tried to block deep cuts to county schools, hospitals and courts. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/528796.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/528796.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT This was supposed to be a golden era for South Florida, an unprecedented four-year period of political power where lawmakers with ties to Miami-Dade and Broward counties -- and the clout to bring the area money and push for local priorities -- were firmly in charge of the Florida Legislature. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/527975.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/527975.html Sat, 10 May 2008 17:30 EDT The hosts of Radio Mambí's weekday morning drive-time show generally reserve their fiercest attacks for Fidel Castro or his younger brother Raúl. http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/540338.html http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/540338.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:53 EDT House members have declared "Frank Sinatra Day," but did it their way. http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/540335.html http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/540335.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:53 EDT Republican John McCain, speaking to a raucous crowd on Cuba's independence day, hammered Democrat Barack Obama for saying he would meet with President Raul Castro and called Obama a "tool of organized labor" for opposing a Latin American trade deal. http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/539334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/539334.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:49 EDT A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures. http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/539800.html http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/539800.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:39 EDT Barack Obama competed with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday, the latest contests in a historic Democratic presidential race moving inexorably his way. http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/540277.html http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/540277.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:39 EDT Republican John McCain, speaking to a raucous crowd on Cuba's independence day, hammered Democrat Barack Obama for saying he would meet with President Raul Castro and called Obama a "tool of organized labor" for opposing a Latin American trade deal. http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/539524.html http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/539524.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:34 EDT Rep. Vito Fossella, citing "personal mistakes" after a drunken driving arrest and disclosure he fathered a child in an extramarital affair, on Tuesday became the 27th Republican congressman to retire rather than face re-election this year. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538606.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538606.html Mon, 19 May 2008 10:52 EDT Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee's Republican Party: "Lay off my wife." http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538611.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538611.html Mon, 19 May 2008 10:52 EDT Democrat Barack Obama fired off a broadside linking likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain to U.S. President George W. Bush's unpopular economic policies, a tactic he is likely to rely on to woo voters worried about economic uncertainty as he looks toward his general election strategy. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538602.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538602.html Mon, 19 May 2008 07:37 EDT A Democratic race that a couple of months ago was celebrated as a march toward history -- the chance to nominate the nation's first woman or African American as a major-party candidate -- threatens to leave lingering bitterness, especially among Clinton supporters, whose candidate is running out of ways to win. (May need to register) http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539334.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:49 EDT A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures. http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539597.html Tue, 20 May 2008 09:11 EDT Seeking to trip up Barack Obama's march to the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton plans to overlap with his much-ballyhooed trip to Florida that begins Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539334.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:49 EDT A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures. http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539597.html Tue, 20 May 2008 09:11 EDT Seeking to trip up Barack Obama's march to the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton plans to overlap with his much-ballyhooed trip to Florida that begins Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539800.html http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/539800.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:39 EDT Barack Obama competed with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday, the latest contests in a historic Democratic presidential race moving inexorably his way. http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/537593.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/537593.html Sun, 18 May 2008 10:51 EDT President Leonel Fernández declared victory Saturday in the Dominican Republic's national election and pledged to continue pushing forward economic projects that have helped pull the Caribbean nation's economy out of crisis. http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/536165.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/536165.html Sat, 17 May 2008 10:26 EDT President Leonel Fernandez declared victory early Saturday in the Dominican Republic's national election and pledged to continue pushing forward economic projects that have helped pull the Caribbean nation's economy out of crisis. http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/532669.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/532669.html Thu, 15 May 2008 08:21 EDT Former President Lucio Gutiérrez can run for public office again after completing a two-year suspension for campaign finance infractions, Ecuador's top election court announced late Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/525316.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/525316.html Fri, 09 May 2008 11:07 EDT President Bush served up a spirited defense of his priorities in Latin America on Wednesday, dismissing recent reforms by Cuba's new leadership as ''empty gestures'' and pushing ambitious initiatives for Mexico and Colombia that face scrutiny by Democrats in Congress. http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/516188.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/516188.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:58 EDT Actor Vin Diesel has stopped chasing bad guys long enough to endorse the president of the Dominican Republic for re-election. http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/516177.html http://www.miamiherald.com/942/story/516177.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:53 EDT Chelsea Clinton stumped for her mother Wednesday in Puerto Rico, trying to woo students away from Sen. Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/539544.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/539544.html Tue, 20 May 2008 03:01 EDT Florida's battered bank account is in danger of running out of money in the current budget year, a move that may force Gov. Charlie Crist to dip into state reserves in the next few weeks. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/538298.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/538298.html Mon, 19 May 2008 03:01 EDT Put aside the Clinton vs. Obama and McCain fights for a moment and consider a summer of political ads accusing black-hat corporate interests of getting million-dollar tax breaks at the expense of hard-working Floridians if they approve an amendment to the state constitution. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/535153.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/535153.html Fri, 16 May 2008 03:01 EDT Sparing Miami-Dade County a potentially vicious mayoral race, state House Speaker Marco Rubio said Thursday that he won't run against incumbent Mayor Carlos Alvarez. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/533728.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/533728.html Thu, 15 May 2008 03:01 EDT Marco Rubio has given himself a first-ever grade for a Florida House Speaker: 57. Rubio and his backers say that in his two years leading the state House, he was able to pass 57 of the proposals in his 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future initiative. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/533699.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/533699.html Thu, 15 May 2008 03:01 EDT Democrat Barack Obama is slated to address the prominent Cuban American National Foundation on May 23, setting up a near-collision over foreign policy with Republican John McCain, who is delivering a major speech on Cuba three days earlier. http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/532184.html http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/532184.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:01 EDT The former President Bush calls him ''Zach,'' and the Bush currently in the White House calls him ``Zee Zee.'' He has been a repeat guest at the family's Crawford ranch, the White House and on Air Force One. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/540255.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/540255.html Tue, 20 May 2008 13:02 EDT An open letter to the presidential hopefuls in town this week: Welcome to South Florida and thanks for coming. We hate to start on a down-beat note, but time is short and we have a lot of problems you should know about. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/540254.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/540254.html Tue, 20 May 2008 12:27 EDT Provoking emotional outbursts from a friendly Latin American audience in Miami, Republican presidential contender John McCain assailed Democrat Barack Obama for his willingness to talk to Cuba and his opposition to free trade with Colombia. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539814.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539814.html Tue, 20 May 2008 09:35 EDT Barack Obama is well known for his ability to draw large crowds, but 75,000 in Portland, Ore.? http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/540021.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/540021.html Tue, 20 May 2008 09:22 EDT Sorting out the lobbying entanglements of his campaign advisors is proving to be a messy business for Sen. John McCain. (May need to register) http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/540018.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/540018.html Tue, 20 May 2008 09:19 EDT The reality is that both Democratic camps have declared an effective cease-fire as they prepare to bring the party together for a general-election campaign against Sen. John McCain. (May need to register) http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539530.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539530.html Mon, 19 May 2008 23:14 EDT At a time when Democrats are poised to knock down a historic racial barrier with their presidential nominee, the GOP is fielding only a handful of minority candidates for Congress or statehouses — none of whom seem to have a prayer of victory. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539571.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539571.html Tue, 20 May 2008 03:01 EDT Barack Obama heads back to the scene of his first breakthrough triumph Tuesday, hoping to use Iowa as a backdrop to announce that he's gained enough pledged delegates to all but clinch the Democratic presidential nomination. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539597.html Tue, 20 May 2008 00:01 EDT Seeking to trip up Barack Obama's march to the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton plans to overlap with his much-ballyhooed trip to Florida that begins Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539039.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539039.html Mon, 19 May 2008 22:09 EDT Republican John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama of inexperience and reckless judgment for saying Iran does not pose the same serious threat to the United States as the Soviet Union did in its day. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539090.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539090.html Tue, 20 May 2008 01:24 EDT Barack Obama will reach a significant milestone Tuesday as he marches toward the Democratic nomination for president - a majority of pledged delegates at stake in all the primaries and caucuses. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539416.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/539416.html Mon, 19 May 2008 21:30 EDT Seeking to trip up Barack Obama's march to the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton plans to overlap with his much-ballyhooed trip to Florida that begins Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538991.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538991.html Mon, 19 May 2008 14:09 EDT Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and a one-time opponent of civil rights legislation, endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538785.html http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/538785.html Mon, 19 May 2008 11:02 EDT Concerned about appearing presumptuous or antagonistic toward Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama will not declare victory in the Democratic nomination fight Tuesday in the event he wins enough pledged delegates to claim a majority.