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• Video: Connie Mack's beat the press campaign

  Rep. Connie Mack IV's is continuing to pick a fight with the Tampa Bay Times and political editor Adam C. Smith.

  On Monday, Mack's campaign wrote a letter to the editor of the Times saying "Smith’s agenda is Left Wing and Democrat." The letter was penned in response to the [...]

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• The ugly, no-holds-barred race between Miami GOP Reps. Ana Rivas Logan and Jose Felix Diaz

  Is there a South Florida primary legislative race nastier than the one between Republican Reps. Jose Felix Diaz and Ana Rivas Logan?

  The Republican incumbents, facing off against each other after redistricting drew them into the same Kendall-based district, traded jabs Wednesday at the Miami Herald editorial board. Diaz said Logan [...]

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• Can Democrats find their footing in their effort to unseat David Rivera?

  Democrats have struggled to find their footing in their effort to unseat U.S. Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, in spite of his legal problems, and now are poised for a tough primary fight in August before taking on the congressman this fall.
  
  But Democrats say they're uniting [...]

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• David Rivera challengers, 'Enron' Joe and 'lying' Gloria, in Democrat mailer war

  The race to topple Miami Republican Rep. David Rivera is getting a little nasty. Here's how Democrats Joe Garcia and Glorida Romero-Roses are filling the mail boxes of the Kendall-Key West district:

  
  
  

   

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• Wasserman Schultz: Fla race is close but Obama's edge will be with seniors, Hispanics

  The race for president may be close in Florida but President Barack Obama will "not cede any ground to Republicans," said DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Wednesday in a conference call with reporters.

  That may explain why Obama's two-day trip to Florida Thursday and Friday will include trips to Jacksonville, where he [...]

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• South Florida lawmakers send office mailers to residents outside of their current districts

  Two South Florida state representatives running for reelection appear to have used taxpayer money to send office mailers to residents outside of their current districts –- a no-no under House policy.

  Rep. Joe Gibbons, a Hallandale Beach Democrat, and Rep. Jeanette Nuñez, a Miami Republican, are both running for new seats [...]

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• Joe Garcia's weapon v. David Rivera: Marco Rubio's words

  Democratic congressional candidate Joe Garcia is using a most-unexpected narrator in a web ad bashing Republican Rep. David Rivera: The voice of Sen. Marco Rubio, a Rivera pal who has repeatedly said Rivera will have to answer questions about his finances that have made him a target of state and [...]

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• Federal judge reject states' challenge to 'Obamacare' contraceptive coverage

  Even with the Supreme Court ruling last month to uphold the most controversial components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, many other legal challenges are still pending. A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by Florida and six other states that contested the requirement that insurance plans offered [...]

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• Obama opens up big lead in poll of Latino voters

  WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has a 70-22 percent lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney among Latino voters, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

  The Latino Decisions national survey comes about a month after both candidates spoke to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, and have [...]

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• Connie Mack, the Brooks Brothers Senate candidate

  Connie Mack's Senate campaign charged nearly $470 for clothing at a Brooks Brothers in Jacksonville, FEC records show, an apparent violation of law.

  Records show identical charges of $234 were made on April 12 and May 16 and the campaign listed it as "clothing." Federal law prohibits the use of campaign [...]

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