Enthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama's candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year's elections to the highest level in 40 years. ...more

December 15, 2008

Cy Wingrove handily wins chairmanship. ...more

December 4, 2008

A former school principal who hung campaign signs for Hubert Humphrey in Hernando County in 1968 will lead the local Democratic Party for the next four years. ...more

December 4, 2008

I was sitting in the front dining room at the Valencia Garden. It was lunchtime and, as is usually the case at the Valencia, the room had its share of politicians and business types on hand, wolfing down whatever with yellow rice. ...more

June 25, 2008

Presidential candidates took turns lambasting an unpopular war, a flagging economy and a controversial president. In Washington, a sitting Republican president urged the faithful to circle the wagons; in Florida, partisans swore that the president was as dangerous as his vice president was loony. The field included a woman, who was black, and a fiery populist. ...more

June 22, 2008

Nothing says capital-D Democrat like the lions of the left from Minnesota - Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Walter Mondale. ...more

May 25, 2008

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stepped onto a political landmine a few weeks ago when she marginalized the contributions of Martin Luther King to the civil rights movement. ...more

January 20, 2008

It's about to happen again. Three states - Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina - that combined don't have as many electoral votes as Florida will have disproportionate influence in determining the next leader of the free world. ...more

December 23, 2007

So far, we have been asking these questions: Is America ready for a woman president? ...more

December 19, 2007

Gus Cooper, a former public relations and advertising executive with New York Life, knew the rich and powerful but what he is real interested in is his retirement home of many years, the city of Dunedin. ...more

November 24, 2007