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• Down with women, Hispanics, RNC’s Priebus talks ground game, ‘bragging’ strategy

  The latest CNN/Time Florida poll shows President Obama leading Republican Mitt Romney 50-46%, a Democrat lead bolstered by a 54-42% edge among women and a big lead among minorities. That’s on top of a Quinnipiac Florida poll that showed Obama leading Romney 49-46%, in which Hispanics favor the Democrat over [...]
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• Poll: Mitt Romney badly trails President Obama among Hispanic voters

  Latino Decisions has teamed up with impreMedia to launch a weekly tracking poll of registered Latino voters voters nationwide -- and its first poll released Monday was not good news for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

  Romney trails President Barack Obama by nearly 40 percentage points, the poll shows. Obama leads [...]

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• CNN/Time: Obama 50%, Romney 46% thanks to huge gender, minority gap

  A new Time/CNN/Opinion Research poll in Florida shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney by four points among likely voters, 50% to 46%.

  "Obama's edge in Florida is bolstered by women voters, among whom he's beating Romney, 54%-42%, and by nonwhite voters, with whom he boasts a 70%-29% advantage. There are signs [...]

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• GOP strategist Karl Rove shares elections insight

  TAMPA -- Karl Rove has made the trasition from Republican operative to political analyst, but his biting humor and sharp elbows style haven’t gone anywhere. Weighing in on the 2012 presidential race Monday morning, he had high praise for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney and criticized President Barack Obama’s re-election [...]

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• Some absentee voters in Hialeah probe insist they did not hand their ballots to suspected brokers

  Olga Roqueta, 77, and her husband say they filled out their absentee ballots without help and put them in their mailbox weeks before the Aug. 14 election.

  Alberto Rodríguez, 42, said Anamary Pedrosa, a former employee in Miami-Dade County Commissioner Esteban Bovo’s Hialeah office, passed by his house to pick up [...]

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• No surprise news of the day: Charlie Crist secures DNC speaking spot

  Charlie Crist, who yesterday endorsed Barack Obama, will speak at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte next week.

  "The Democratic convention will be about bringing people together to continue the progress we've made in rebuilding our economy from the middle out, not the top down," a Democratic official said. "Gov. Crist [...]

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• Scott prepares for Isaac to become a hurricane and hit Panhandle

  PALM HARBOR -- Gov. Rick Scott said he is returning to Tallahassee Monday as he expects Isaac to increase wind speeds and become a slow-moving hurricane that will make landfall somewhere between Pensacola and Mobile, Ala., Tuesday night, and dump an estimated 16 inches on the already-soaked Panhandle.

  “Our risk right [...]

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• Isaac could be Gov. Rick Scott's moment

  TAMPA — Gov. Rick Scott expected to get just a few minutes in the Republican National Convention spotlight. A seven-minute speech during Monday's opening session, maybe a few appearances at a fundraiser or a reception.

  Then Tropical Storm Isaac began churning in the Caribbean and made a turn toward the [...]

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• Florida delegates arrive -- at the Republican equivalent of Siberia

  Florida's convention delegates and party faithful streamed into the Innisbrook Golf and Spa resort on Sunday, right on schedule, as the hurry-up and wait for convention activities began. They were handed white bags with blue trim, loaded with RNC swag from water bottles to a beach towels.

  But if the gray clouds, [...]

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• Women’s suffrage, stirred not shaken, at YG Network

  Sure, conservatives are playing defense these days over abortions thanks to the widely condemned remarks of Missouri Rep. Todd Akin.
  
  That’s where the YG Network comes in during the Republican National Convention.
  
  Though technically not part of the RNC, the network is sponsoring a “Woman Up” pavilion dedicated [...]
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