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A newly released Quinnipiac University poll shows that a majority of Florida voters now believe President Obama deserves to be reelected. Obama’s numbers are up since April, when a 51 percent majority believed he did not deserve to be reelected. Current numbers give him a 51 percent approval rate, with 44 percent saying he should not be serve another term.

President-elect Barack Obama named the four leaders of his energy and environmental team at a press conference in Chicago this evening, pledging a new hybrid

For a man accustomed to life outside the spotlight as the former head of the military’s secretive Joint Special Operations Command, McChrystal now finds himself

Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn indicated Friday that not one specific issue will help define candidates among Iowa Republicans in the 2012 election.

An Austin supporter of Ron Paul wants to know if there are any women who have engaged in promiscuous activity with Rick Perry. Paul refused comment on the print ad Friday, saying it would provide something “rather silly” with “too much credibility.” Robert Morrow, the Paul supporter responsible for the ad, spoke briefly with reporter Justin Elliott of Salon , indicating that the organization noted on the ad — Committee Against Sexual Hypocrisy (CASH) — was really just himself. In part, the ad reads: “HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH RICK PERRY

With news that President-elect Barack Obama will not attend President George W. Bush’s summit on the global financial crisis, onlookers might be forgiven for

Attorney General Richard Cordray has filed a suit against GMAC Mortgage. There is evidence that this company has illegally ousted people from their private property, he told TWI.

A bill currently awaiting signature from Gov. Rick Scott aims to restrict access for minors seeking a judicial bypass for the state’s mandatory parental notification for abortion law. Florida’s House Bill 1247 was just one of a crop of controversial measures introduced during the 2011 session that aimed to limit abortion-rights in Florida .

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is warning that the reactor it built for DTE Energy’s Fermi II nuclear power plant may not shut down properly during an earthquake. The Pittsburgh Tribune reports that Fermi II is among 35 GE reactors where the company is recommending testing to determine what level of friction would interfere with the insertion of control rods into the reactor core during an earthquake

The opposition to the $2 billion extension of the cash for clunkers program that passed the House today is lining up in the Senate, which is expected to take up

A new United Nations report found that civilian deaths increased in Afghanistan by 40 percent in 2008. That’s a death toll of more than 2100 civilians due to

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Republicans and Democrats in the state are divided over which court should be assigned the task of redrawing New Mexico’s federal and state legislative districts, and Democrats have asked the state’s highest court to pick a location.

Colby Hall has the scoop: Mediaite has learned that leading center-right web site Hot Air has been acquired by Salem Communications for an undisclosed sum.

In a short conversation after his speech -- which was taped by a film crew that was hovering around us -- Andrew Breitbart chided me for asking Giles about the

Interesting new development in the shadowy world of 501(c)(4) spending. Forbes is reporting that a Los Angeles tax lawyer is advising clients that their

Minnesota’s unemployment rate remained at 7.2 percent, slightly less than the nation’s average of 9.1 percent, according to data released by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as