We know you’ve been wondering: How exactly did Marco Rubio stir the conservative fire in his belly before jumping onstage during the campaign? Reading George Will? Watching O’Reilly grill some hapless liberals?Nope: Straight-up gangsta rap. Rubio liked to crank Tupac and NWA before his speeches, the Weekly Standard reports in…
Is Alex Sink chewing on a bushel of sour grapes following her loss to Rick Scott or is she accurately hitting on some of the political and messaging failures of the Obama White House and the Democratic party in general? In an article on Politico this weekend, Sink lays some…
After nearly 22 years in the House and becoming the Republican’s longest serving female member of that body, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is about to get her biggest taste of power yet in DC. When the GOP assumes control of the House in January, Ros-Lehtinen will become the chair of the Committee…
Depending on your point of view Marco Rubio looks like a lot of things: a red blooded American hunk set to save the county, an overgrown 12-year-old with a Justin Bieber mop haircut, or, apparently, a Central American dictator. Liberal web empress Arianna Huffington stands accused of throwing the latest,…
What the hell did you have going on Tuesday where you couldn’t vote? Yes, I’m talking to you, South Florida. Because a stronger turn out in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach which happen to be the most populace counties in the state and all voted super strongly for Alex Sink…
Lost among the noise of a thousand tea baggings at the polls yesterday was the runaway victory of Frederica Wilson, the cowboy-hat rockin’ Democrat who picked up 86 percent of the vote to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress. Wilson has never shied away from a fight — her political career…
The most famous author coming to the Miami International Book Fair this year is a guy so devoted to a good read that he refused to put down a children’s book even as the Twin Towers fell. We’re talking, of course, about George W. Bush, who will be coughing up…
Voters in district 115 last night hired a man to represent them in the state house who had previously been fired by none other than Donald Trump. Yes, with the election of Jose Felix “Pepi” Diaz, Florida’s legislature now includes a former reality TV contestant. At least he starred in…
The Florida Democratic Party has nearly 600,000 more registered voters in the state than the Republicans, yet last night they failed miserably in delivering on a single important race. Their Governor candidate lost to a man who ran a company involved in the biggest Medicare fraud case in American history…
In almost any other year Alex Sink probably would have scrubbed the floor with Rick Scott. Instead this morning she issued her concession speech. With a margin currently less than 80,000 votes it appears that Rick Scott, the man who ran a company convicted of defrauding Medicare, is set to…
Good ol’ Michael the Black Man — he should fit right in with the apocalyptic feel of this morning’s news. The former cult member, who once was charged with cutting somebody’s head off and led a group interrupting an Obama speech with signs bearing such slogans as “Obama is endorsed by…
Marco Rubio is running for president in 2012. It’s not official, of course, and maybe even Rubio himself hasn’t decided whether to seek the highest office in the land. But at the raucus party tonight at the Biltmore, it sure seemed like Rubio’s next campaign just began.There weren’t 300 media…
Will Florida gets its first female Governor? Will the country’s first female Speaker of the House be forced to turn in her gavel? Will Kendrick Meek somehow shock the world by winning? Did anyone bother to get to know enough about the CFO race to bother voting? Join us tonight…
We complained when the national media jumped on the minor “iCheat” flap in the Florida governor’s debate that they just hadn’t been paying as much attention as they should to Sunshine State races. There are a lot of interesting stories here, dammit! A three-way Senate race with a Tea Party…
Let’s not be cynical. We don’t know who will win the Florida race for U.S. Senate (so please go out and vote), but polls indicate Marco Rubio is the favorite. If he emerges victorious, it will be only a matter of time before speculation about a 2012 presidential run begins…
Rick Scott first made waves in the Republican primary by introducing the idea of Arizona-style immigration laws into the Florida campaign. Leaning to the extreme right proved successful in the primary, but as he moved into the general election, his campaign conveniently seems to have lessened its emphasis on championing…
Quinnipiac University’s latest Florida poll numbers are significant because, well, it’s a day before the election. It is also one of the first polls taken after “Debate Gate.” The governor’s race remains supertight, with Alex Sink leading Rick Scott by only a single point. It’s a completely different story in the Senate…
What better way to celebrate the pending GOP sweep of the House (and just maybe the Senate) than to relive the good ol’ days under Dubya with No. 43 himself? If you’re among the thousands in Dade feeling nostalgic for life under Rummy, Condi and Cheney, you’re in luck!George W…
Allen West could soon become the first sitting U.S. congressman with ties to a white racist biker gang (well, at least since Sen. Dirtbeard Jones [R-Penn] back in ’46). It’s all the more remarkable considering that West — who’s four points ahead of Rep. Ron Klein in his Broward and…
Following reports that he asked Kendrick Meek to drop out of the senate race former President Bill Clinton has taken some serious heat. However, he’s just released a statement refuting Politico’s story and says he never asked Meek to drop out, nor did Meek ever at any point agree to…
When we signed off with our last post here on Riptide last night Kendrick Meek was still running a campaign to be elected to the United State Senate as the candidate of the party with the most registered voters in Florida. When we woke up this morning that was still…
Why, yes, that is Marco Rubio peering at you from the latest cover of Time magazine. Unlike yesterday’s tea bagger beefcake calendar, the cover is for real. Rubio takes one of four special-edition covers that feature some of the most talked-about Republican candidates from across the country, and inside, Time…
