Monthly Archives: April 2025
Florida Soccer Report: A conversation with Sporting Jacksonville’s new Sporting Director
Was it a penalty or not? We relitigate once again the Blake Bodily foul toward the end of the first half in the Rowdies latest loss in Charleston as well as discuss Tampa Bay Sun’s 2-0 win over high-flying Fort Lauderdale United as well as another FC Naples win in USL League One. We also […]
Protectionism -> Corruption
Protectionism leads to corruption and inefficiency as we’ve seen in history.
Snowbirds saying bye-bye to Florida
despite Governor DeSantis’s claims that the current political tensions with Canada will have no impact on Florida evidence is proving otherwise. https://moneywise.com/news/real-estate-news/done-with-florida-canadians-snowbirds-are-selling-their-properties-and-canceling-trips
Is Danielle Smith Sabotaging Pierre Poilievre?
Is Smith, along with Kevin O’Leary and Preston Manning, making a power play in a potential Conservative Party vacuum? Read more at the 11th Province
On “Canada First”
Despite Pierre Poilievre making “Canada First” a campaign slogan for the Conservatives (CPC) it’s the Liberals who are proving to truly be Canada First. And this is a big reason why we’ve seen the incredible poll swing we have in the last three months. Keep reading at the 11th Province https://open.substack.com/pub/the11thprovince/p/canada-first-a-meaningless-conservative?r=624o2&utm_medium=ios
Welcome to the 11th Province
Dave Trotter has launched a new site that I will be contributing to, called the 11th Province. It’s about Canadian politics, something as a Floridian I have had a keen interest in ever since taking a Canadian Politics class taught by Dr. Martinez thirty years ago this semester at the University of Florida. Canada and […]
Canadian Election -swing to Liberals continues
Check out the latest Votimg Trend podcast by Dave Trotter and myself via Apple Podcasts
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later:
Charging Into Policy Risk and Uncertainty The President has used a policy failure of the 1800s and applied it to today’s modern economy. On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump spoke fondly of the “McKinley” tariffs which were in imposed in the 1890s. This was when the U.S.’s leading exports were corn, cotton and […]
Lessons for Democrats from Tuesday
Kartik Krishnaiyer has long advocated more Democratic emphasis on the Pensacola area – he discusses that and other lessons from Tuesday’s elections as well as the continued grifting culture around Florida Democrats.
I’ve NEVER seen this in my 34 years in Florida politics!
I’ve worked in Florida politics for over 33 years. Specifically, I’ve worked in numbers crunching. I’ve made the most accurate nowcast models of Florida (beating 538 in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018). I know the state’s political geography like the back of my hand. But what happened yesterday in Florida’s 1st Congressional is something that […]
The Florida Squeeze 