While Republican presidential candidates battle for the votes of Floridians, the Democratic candidates, sworn not to campaign here, are battling over whether the primary matters. ...more

January 28, 2008

Cynthia Mann of East Tampa hit the polls early last week to cast her vote for Barack Obama. ...more

January 26, 2008

Barack Obama has not made it easy for his Florida supporters. Like other leading Democratic presidential candidates, Obama has refused to campaign here. His staff ignores the grass-roots Florida organizations backing him. And his campaign recently declared that Florida's voters "have no bearing on the Democratic nomination contest." ...more

January 21, 2008

It seems ironic that the political party that claimed to want every Florida vote to count in 2000 now thinks Florida voters no longer matter. In the hectic days following the 2000 election, Democrats were so desperate for votes in Florida they were arguing that under-votes ballots with no presidential candidate selected should be counted as a vote for Al Gore. ...more

January 20, 2008

Republican candidates are always depicted by Democrats and the media as racists, sexists, homophobes and bigots. They must have forgotten their talking papers, because Sen. Hillary Clinton and her staff are attacking Sen. Barack Obama, and Sen. Obama is responding. Both parties have agreed to a cease-fire, but we will see how long it lasts. ...more

January 17, 2008

Republican candidates are always depicted by Democrats and the media as racists, sexists, homophobes and bigots. ...more

January 17, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has eaten beef tacos in East Los Angeles and sat on the living room couch of a working-class family in a largely Hispanic neighborhood here for 30 televised minutes. ...more

January 15, 2008

Voters who've made up their minds about property taxes and who want a say in their party's nomination for the presidential election may vote early in Pasco County starting today. ...more

January 14, 2008

Tensions mounted between the two leading Democratic candidates for president Sunday, as Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a newly aggressive attack on Barack Obama, suggesting his much-vaunted opposition to the Iraq war was all talk and little action. ...more

January 14, 2008

Voters Disenfranchised Regarding "Florida Voters 'Could Have a Huge Role' " (Nation/World, Jan. 6): ...more

January 12, 2008