Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Hey, Florida Democrat – Trump has never been as unpopular in this state as you think
Florida Democrats love personality-based politics. They love to run against something but not really stand for anything. They love floating various electoral theories publicly while doing the same basic flawed things over and over again. Well, unfortunately for Florida Democrats, making President Donald Trump, a part-time Floridian a bogeyman was a flawed strategy in so […]
Analysis: How easy will reversing history in one “wave” be for Florida Democrats? The RPOF gives a playbook.
Florida Democrats are hoping to ride a “blue wave” Tuesday in order to reverse a quarter century of history in this state. As our latest exclusive modeling shows, this is closer reality than a week or two ago. The Democrats almost certainly will end a statewide office losing streak where the party has won only […]
Opinion: Florida’s Governor’s Race has been dumb and dumber. Nelson is the clear choice for Senate.
This column represents the views of Kartik Krishnaiyer alone and no other writer affiliated with this site. Florida already has a bad reputation for various reasons. Perhaps much of this owes itself to a national press that since the late 1990’s has been seemingly obsessive about anything related to the state. But another aspect of […]
Hidden Florida: Jackson County’s Caverns
Hurricane Michael, the most powerful Hurricane to hit the United States since Camile in 1969 ravaged Jackson County. It’s path of destruction impacted 14 state parks, many of which we will feature in the coming months on Hidden Florida. We’ll have destinations from all over the state we feature in this series. We start our […]
Miami Freedom Park vote on Tuesday pits competing visions for south Florida
Jorge Mas’ dream of a great commercially relevant park to rival New York’s (Queens) Flushing Meadows Park with green space, sports arena’s, commercial development and other amenities faces a major test in front of voters on Tuesday. Miami Freedom Park which would developed on the current site of Melreese Country Club has aroused controversy since […]
Miami Hurricanes Men’s Basketball – a prouder tradition than many realize
Editors note: We’re going to begin covering College Basketball this season at TFS in addition to some soon-to-come non-political features we’re adding to the site. If I told you the University of Miami’s Men’s Basketball has finished a season in the AP Top 10 twice since the football team last did you might think I […]
Trump’s coded antisemitism puts Florida’s Jews at far more risk than Andrew Gillum ever could
Editors note: Portions of this piece are from previous TFS’ articles which have become timely in this moment of tragedy Donald Trump personally is not antisemitic we are told over and over again. I accept that statement, I suppose – but George Wallace wasn’t a racist personally and yet he conjured up racist anger not […]
Big sugar and the 2018 Florida election
Following eight years of Rick Scott’s anti-environmental administration, cleaning up and resorting the Everglades water quality and flows which is mandated by a court order is further behind schedule than imaginable. Scott’s alliance with sugar barons in southern Florida has been mirrored by a legislature unwilling to stand up to the industry with the exception […]
Marco Rubio is the LAST PERSON with the credibility to call for civility – judge him by his own words in the past
The DC political press corps favorite GOPer (though this is not true of the Florida press corp who have generally tried to keep him honest), Florida Junior Senator Marco Rubio has reappeared as a national figure in the wake of this week’s tragic events. After days of silence following an attempt by one of his […]
Why do the Dream Defenders and other leftists push BDS for Israel but not others?
In recent days Ron DeSantis has sloppily made the Dream Defenders support of Andrew Gillum an issue, using BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) of Israel as his chief talking point. From a purely political perspective you have to assume Adam Putnam were he the GOP nominee would be far more effective in nailing Gillum on this […]
The Florida Squeeze 