If the UNICCO strike of 2006 taught us anything, it’s never to underestimate the political determination of University of Miami’s custodial workers. Today, the LA Times (y’know, Obama’s “Pet Newspaper”) ran a piece on permanent residents who can’t vote but are still working hard on behalf of their candidates. One…
Let’s hope Al Gore doesn’t believe in history repeating itself. For the first time this election season, the former Democratic nominee for president and recent Nobel Prize Winner is hitting the trail for Obama. And he’s heading — where else — for Palm Beach and Broward Counties, the epicenters of…
I wish this YouTube video was a satire of the worse tendencies of fear mongering conservatives (like that ill-concieved New Yorker cover), but holy shit it is an actual, earnest piece put out by Social Conservative PAC Government is Not God. The video is a newscast from the future, just…
Come voting time, we don’t hear much from the so-called “quiet minority.” You pretty much have to break out the bullhorn to get some attention in this melt, melt, melting pot of a municipality. So we’ll use the squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease theory to explain why Florida is the last state in the…
Charlie Crist took a lot of heat from his fellow Republicans for extending early voting. And with Democrats making up 54% of early voters compared to the Republican’s 30%, it seemed like Obama would have the advantage, but a new LA Times/Bloomberg poll shows that McCain has a significant lead…
The Republican National Committee will be running this ad in Miami, apparently. “Would you get on a plane with a pilot who has never flown?… Can you hand your nation to a man who has never been in charge of anything? Can you wait while he learns?” Is this really…
Well, not quite. The Phillies did, but the good news for Miami is that the Marlins remain the only Florida team to win the championship, and Pat Burrell became only the second University of Miami alum to win the series. With the Canes, Burrell was named MVP in the 1996…
Jamie Laughlin Miss Miramar Tropic and Obama supporter Crystal Dranetz. Editor’s Note: Barack Obama squeezed a rally in Sunrise into his lengthy, cool infomercial Wednesday night. Staff writer Jamie Laughlin tells the story through two attendees. Crystal Dranetz stands out in a crowd. Through the serpentine parade of Obama supporters…
The Heat lost their season opener to the Knicks! The Knicks? It is going to be a long season. [UPI] Cuban officials expect the next President to lift the embargo. [Herald] A secret communist who shared his toys in kindergarten and then sold the nation a whole bunch of Ginsu…
It was close to noon yesterday when I began my trek to Miami Beach City Hall, eager to cast my vote in this loong, drawn out Presidential election. The walk was short, the weather cool, but exercising the right to elect my candidate of choice wasn’t quite as easy. As…
A wake of astonishment follows him through Miami International Airport on a windy Friday, 27 days before Election Day. A blond businesswoman with a cell phone glued to her cheek halts her hurried stride. “I think I just saw Bar …” she exhales into the phone, but can’t bring herself…
Bracing for an Election Day scandal in South Florida is like preparing for a hurricane. You know one is coming, but you can’t predict the damage. The 2000 recount was a Category 4. When hundreds of votes were mistakenly not counted five years later during a special election, it was…
The loss of news is almost imperceptible; there’s really no way to know what stories we might be missing when there’s no one there to report it. The Shrinking Three have handed down nearly 1,000 buyouts and layoffs during the past couple of years, according to my estimate. About 350…
Ready for South Florida courtroom drama to screw up another presidential election? That’s exactly what Miami-Dade is asking for this year, even as mile-long lines of voters cast thousands of early ballots for president, says Ion Sancho, Florida’s patron saint of fair voting. “They’re risking a lawsuit on Election Day…
Last Wednesday afternoon, a chiseled male gymnast — face made up to resemble a feline’s — lifted and flung a tiny female counterpart around a stage set up at Lincoln Road Mall as new-age music wailed from speakers. Diners at nearby outdoor tables watched the preview of Cirque du Soleil’s…
In a year certain to be dominated by Democrats, the party’s Florida vice chairman is in trouble. Luis Garcia is battling influential county lobbyist Jorge Luis Lopez to represent Key Biscayne, South Beach, downtown Miami, and Little Havana. Garcia is a 62-year-old retired firefighter who, as a state legislator, succeeded…
Barack Obama cranked on Tuesday, so we’re cranked. And he took Florida too. Wowsa! It’s history, baby! But then we looked more closely at the results and, well, the Diaz-Balart brothers proved that while negative campaigning didn’t work across the nation, South Florida lapped it up. Miami Dade College lost…
Still waiting for a verdict on Chavez’s alleged plot to funnel money to Fernandez. Photo via Getty Images. After two months of drama and international intrigue in Miami’s federal courthouse, the Herald reports this afternoon that a jury hasn’t been able to reach a verdict in “the suitcase trial.” The…
via 538 Here’s something you won’t see when reading the Daily’s recaps of McCain’s rally at Everglades Lumber: Apparently, there was a tense scene where a number of McCain supporters surrounded a few Obama supporters before police had to intervene, according to 538. After the rally, we witnessed a near-street…
Jose D. Duran Voters line up outisde of the Stephen P. Clark Center in downtown Miami waiting to vote Wednesday morning. What a difference a week makes. With people statewide rushing to the polls to cast their ballots, polling places have been plagued by long queues of voters. At some…
McCain likes to remind Obama that he’s not running against President Bush, but maybe someone needs to remind McCain that he’s not running against William Ayers. Before his Lumberyard rally in Miami this morning, McCain was on Radio Mambi talking about the “washed up old terrorist” according to Naked Politics:…
University of Miami students love their puns: The shuttles are called “The Hurrycane,” every student government ticket has some slogan like “Here to help U”, the GLBT group is called “spectrUM”. Now the University of Miami College Republicans are carrying on this hilarious tradition with their McCane graphics to help…
