Category 2014 Election
House Caucus dissidents creating unneeded ruckus and problems for our values
Over the last two days reports have been circulating that Rep. Dwayne Taylor (D-Daytona Beach) plans to challenge House Democratic Leader-Designate Mark Pafford (D-West Palm Beach) before or at the organizational session on November 18th. Taylor has been backed by a faction of dissidents, led by Rep. Darryl Rouson, who seem to have been more […]
Election 2014 Winners/Losers Part I
Editors Note: From today until Sunday TFS will be unveiling our winner’s and losers of the 2014 cycle. These winners/losers include primaries and special elections. WINNER ASHLEY WALKER Brought late into the sagging Broward School Bonds campaign, Walker who managed President Obama’s 2012 Florida Campaign had taken some knocks from critics earlier this year after […]
Did President Obama’s immigration punt cost Governor Crist the election?
I must admit the various postmortems on Governor Crist’s loss on Tuesday to Rick Scott have been interesting. The discussion of Scott’s North Florida strategy and the Crist campaign’s progressive messaging costing the former Governor the region (which Alex Sink did far better in) is being discussed – though I believe this is a canard […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
The Florida Squeeze 