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Feeney helped draw the district boundaries to his benefit during the 2002 reapportionment while he was Speaker of the Florida House. But that advantage, which in past elections translated into big, double-digit winning margins, has vaporized. The latest poll, released Sept. 18 by Democratic challenger Suzanne Kosmas, a well-financed, term-limited state legislator and businesswoman from New Smyrna Beach, showed Feeney only one percentage point ahead of Kosmas, a statistical dead heat. For the first time, Feeney lost the endorsement of his hometown newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, which noted on October 12 that Feeney's power has waned...
...Asked why Florida Republicans declined to buy ads in black newspapers promoting McCain's candidacy, Jim Greer, the group's chairman, said, "I prefer to look at what really reaches African-American voters, what gets them engaged, and I'm not sure advertising is always the answer. The answer is sitting down to talk with them." Last year, for instance, Florida Republicans held a leadership conference in Orlando that drew some 500 blacks. Nevertheless, Clarence McKee, a co-chair of African-Americans for McCain in Florida, says of his party, "They have to do more to reach out to black...
Three-term Florida Congressman Tom Feeney has not been criminally charged in the Washington corruption scheme that sent super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to federal prison. But the taint of the Republican's 2003 golf trip to Scotland on Abramoff's dime is derailing his re-election campaign...
...Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call on Oct. 7 put Feeney in 6th place on its top 10 list of most endangered congressional incumbents. The seat, House District 24 in Republican-leaning East Central Florida, includes portions of the Orlando metro area, Daytona Beach and Kennedy Space Center...
Political analyst and University of Central Florida professor Aubrey Jewett, who also resides in Feeney's district, said the ad could backfire as otherwise unengaged voters get clued in. "If they had asked me, I would have suggested not to run it," Jewett said. "It's hard to say exactly how it will pan out. It did bring the scandal to more people's attention." Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words, says political apologies are rarely perceived as genuine, leaving in question their impact...