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The new poll has Crist and Rubio even at 43 points, a 10-point swing for both men since last August. It's a sign, says Aubrey Jewett, a Florida politics expert at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, that "political gravity has caught up with Crist," who until...
Yet alienating the less impassioned Republicans who don't come out for straw polls - especially in a state with Florida's centrist and independent streak - is also risky. Crist knows they vote in primaries. They helped give him a landslide victory in the 2006 gubernatorial primary against a more conservative...
As his brief statement to reporters made clear, President Obama really cannot take a holiday, even in when he goes home to Hawaii. (Or avoid causing apprehension. Later on Monday Obama caused concern when he interrupted a golf game to rush back to his rented residence on Kailuana Place in...
While the Obamas were at dinner, a security barrier was set up outside the restaurant. But it didn't inconvenience diners at nearby restaurants too badly, says Janice Respicio, a manager of Gyotaku Japanese restaurant. "We had traffic in front, but not too bad," Respicio says. "But we were pretty...
Another bonus, Shinn says, is that she gets the advantage of heightened security, with Secret Service agents and two checkpoints on her street. "You do feel safer because hardly anyone can come around," she says. "But I feel sorry for the people living on the canal [that runs through the...