Monthly Archives: November 2014
Katy’s Election Take-Aways and First Impressions
Tuesday night stung on a few different levels. I took a moment for the data to start coming out and marinated a little over various bits coming out. As I’m sure we will all discuss over the next few months. My main take-away lessons and observations: – The fact that that while African Americans turned […]
Election Winners and Losers – Coming Friday – Monday on TFS
We are rolling out our election winners and losers over four days on TFS. Stay tuned and if you have any nominations, leave them in the comments section!
Florida Democrats: Time for calm introspection before making needed changes
Florida’s Democrats suffered a massive defeat on Tuesday. But so did Democrats across the nation and when you look at how things unfolded, Florida may have just done better than many of our neighbors. It is true that Florida’s record run of futility, losing 17 of the last 18 races for Governor or Cabinet (the […]
The Midterms, GOP’s Burden Of Governance and 2016: Stop Overreacting.
While Kartik has focused most of our coverage thus far on the Florida elections, I figured it would complementary to include an analysis of the national elections in the context of what it means going forward. Let’s be clear: it was a very good night for Republicans but no, it was not a “wave’ election […]
Florida’s media and Republican hegemony
The postmortems on the 2014 election in Florida are being written and the ink is barely dry. But one thing that stands out for me which nobody else will talk about is how complicit Florida’s press has become with the Republican Party in this state. The death of strong Tallahassee bureaus at the major daily […]
Quick Election Takeaways
I will save the long narrative about Florida’s citizens and media for later today. Here are some quick thoughts about what transpired last night. Given the national mood I would caution the critics of the Florida Democratic Party from shooting their mouths off today. I would argue the failure in past election cycles under different […]
Election Night LIVE! Follow us on Twitter
Follow our Twitter stream at https://twitter.com/Fl_Political_Sq Select posts will be embedded here. Any Democrat that can't get Palm Beach and Broward to turnout can't win. -JS — The Florida Squeeze (@Flasqueeze) November 5, 2014 If Governor @CharlieCrist does indeed fall short, Hillsborough and Palm Beach counties are to blame the most. – KK — The Florida […]
Watch Pinellas and Palm Beach counties tonight
Our friends over at Saint Petersblog will appreciate this plug…while Hillsborough often is the county to watch when returns come in for statewide races, tonight it could be across the bay in Pinellas that tells the story. Pinellas is often the first large county to report in full and should Governor Crist not amass a […]
The Wyllie factor
Recent public polls in the Governor’s race have continued to show Libertarian Party Adrian Wyllie polling above 5% and even as high as 10% in some surveys. History however shows us that with the notable exception of the 1992 and 1996 pre-election polls, third party candidates tend to flame out on Election Day. Why is […]
Sources: Darryl Rouson playing ball with Republicans potentially threatening Crist’s veto sustaining ability
As Florida’s Democrats are fighting hard throughout the state to elect Charlie Crist as Governor and keep the party’s numbers in the House above 1/3 of the body in order to prevent a veto-proof majority for the GOP, a dissident Democrat is quite possibly making alternative plans. Rep. Darryl Rouson, whose ouster as Democratic House […]
The Florida Squeeze 