Category 2016 Presidential
The Phlip Side: Which landslide election will 2016 emulate?
Editor’s note: This week Sean Phillippi begins a weekly column for TFS with his latest thoughts and observations from around the political landscape. By Sean Phillippi Anyone who says that they know what is going to happen with this November’s presidential election is either lying to you, lying to themselves, or they simply don’t know […]
Florida will be competitive in November – Democrats remain in denial
Last week Steve Schale, who is one of the smartest Floridians out there predicted the state wouldn’t be a slam dunk for Democrats and reminded us that Rick Scott won twice with upside down favorable/unfavorable numbers. Many around the state in Democratic circles mocked Schale’s analysis – but why? Most of the push back was […]
Florida Republicans looking to launch “Florida Fusion for Hillary”
The defeats of favorite sons Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have left Florida Republicans embittered toward the party’s Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. For many Republicans though, Hillary Clinton represents a soft landing when contrasted to Trump. Losing the Presidency is tough for any political party but many Republicans seem willing to sacrifice the White House […]
The Democrats turnout problem in Florida is serious and could get worse
As we discussed Tuesday night on our Rabble.TV Election Coverage and on this site, Democrats cast approximately 700,000 fewer ballots in Florida this Presidential Preference Primary (PPP) than Republicans did. This is despite the fact that Florida has more registered Democrats than Republicans and minority turnout was impressive in Florida, with over half the ballots in the […]
Marco Rubio learned an angry dog doesn’t differentiate and the price of disloyalty
Marco Rubio’s national political career ascended thanks to the Tea Party and unsettled mood in the GOP following the George W. Bush Presidency. This came after a career in the relatively low-caliber world of the Florida Legislature and Miami-Dade County which was forged as the Tampa Bay Times Alex Leary demonstrated in vivid detail via […]
Relive our four hours of live Primary Night coverage
TFS Radio was on the air from 8pm to midnight last night with Brook Hines and Kartik Krishnaiyer giving real time analysis of the election results. Feel free to listen to our coverage again and to hold us accountable for our words. The program can be found here.
Florida Primary: Democratic Primary Turnout appx. 700k less than GOP Primary
This in a closed primary state with more registered Democrats Quick takeaway from tonight. Democrats have a turnout problem and enthusiasm gap here in Florida. FULL STOP. We’ll have far more on this later tonight or tomorrow AM. You can listen live to Brook Hines and Kartik Krishnaiyer right now LIVE on Rabble discussing the […]
TFS Radio: Primary Special 8pm Tuesday Night
You can listen LIVE AT THIS LINK . Unlike most shows we won’t be taping it and embedding the audio so you must listen tonight on Rabble or on-demand after the show concludes. TFS Radio is a collaborative effort of The Florida Squeeze and Rabble TV. Via our partner Rabble.TV you can listen to the show on […]
Marco Rubio implies blame for President Obama RE: violence at Trump rallies
Donald Trump’s rhetoric is simply a reaction to President Obama’s “dividing” of America if you listen to Florida’s Junior Senator Marco Rubio. This weekend Rubio said the following: “President Obama has spent the last eight years dividing Americans among haves and have-nots, along ethnic lines, racial lines, gender lines in order to win elections. I […]
GOP Statewide Race-Baiting in Florida from 1968 to 2016 (And those Republicans who opposed it)
Both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have done a fair amount of race-baiting either subtle (Rubio) or overt (Trump) over the course of the last few months. The GOP race now in Florida has featured this baiting This is sadly nothing new in the annals of this state. In 1968, Alabama’s Democratic former Governor George […]
The Florida Squeeze 