Meek won his primary, but still struggles to rally Democrats

Days before Florida’s primary, President Obama finally did what Rep. Kendrick Meek’s supporters had been begging him to do for some time: He showed up in the Sunshine State and referred to Meek as “the next senator from the state of Florida.”

But the in-person endorsement came with a caveat.

American Crossroads announces get-out-the-vote plans

American Crossroads, the conservative political action organization associated with Karl Rove and Ed Gillespe, is declaring its intention today to spend more than $10 million on a midterm get-out-the-vote effort in eight battleground states, including Florida. The program is called…

Marco Rubio moves to the middle

Yesterday’s New York Times focused attention on Florida’s Republican Senate candidate, Marco Rubio. Tomorrow was supposed to be a high point for the former speaker of the Florida House — the moment he would dispatch his primary opponent Gov.…

Meek’s surge bodes ill for Crist

President Clinton will campaign today in South Florida on behalf of Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla. Meek is coming off some decidedly better poll numbers in his race against billionaire Jeff Greene for the Democratic Senate nomination and says…

More dirt dredged up against Greene

The St. Petersburg Times has launched yet another rocket at billionaire and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene:

At a project called La Mirage, Greene converted 1950s-era military housing from apartments to 300 condos. In the summer of 2006, just as he was starting to make his bets against the sub-prime housing market, records show that Greene’s company unloaded the units, some for as much as $165,000. The buyers turned out to be people who never intended to own the properties or pay back the loans.

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Republicans consider controversial change to primary calendar

Today, Republican Party officials representing every state and territory in the country convene in Kansas City for the Republican National Committee’s annual summer meeting. Generally, the event is a chummy and predictable affair, an opportunity for attendees to hobnob between conferences. But the upcoming four days are shaping up to be tense, as party officials find themselves divided over a proposal to reform the GOP’s presidential nomination process for the 2012 election.

White House boosts Meek for Senate, Greene berates his employees

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is hosting a fundraiser today for Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek’s Senate bid. No one has come right out and said it, but the event is clearly meant to counteract criticism that…