Romney Shows Forward Momentum in Three Swing States
In three state polls — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Florida — Romney shows signs of gaining on Obama. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year-old Florida high school student who was arrested last month for what was essentially a failed science experiment, won't face criminal charges.
In three state polls — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Florida — Romney shows signs of gaining on Obama. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
George Zimmerman's legal team announced on Monday night that it wouldn't argue its case under Florida's stand-your-ground law, instead pursuing a traditional self-defense argument, but that that doesn't mean his lawyers see their case as any weaker.
We should cheer Mitt Romney for believing in second chances, because on Monday the presidential candidate held an event in Miami with a convicted cocaine trafficker.
The Florida State Attorney's Office caused some havoc in newsrooms on Thursday when it released a batch of evidence in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder case, then recalled it 25 minutes later, saying it hadn't been reviewed properly.
Try to wrap your head around this: The judge in George Zimmerman's case can't disagree with George Zimmerman's lawyers' claim that he's not impartial, because then he'd be expressing an opinion and he really wouldn't be impartial.
Obama has leads in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, all crucial swing states. The president's approval rating was up for the first half of the year in 13 states and D.C. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Obama has the narrowest of leads over Romney in Florida, Missouri looks like Romney country, and 48 percent of Americans support gay marriage. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The notoriously secretive Florida Governor Rick Scott pleasantly surprised journalists a couple months ago by announcing a project where anybody could access his emails. Turns out, he was only showing emails from an account mostly used by his conservative supporters, the Tampa Bay Times' Toluse Olorunnipa reports.
Is there a chance Jewish voters will vote not quite so overwhelmingly Democratic in the presidential election?
In the wake of the gun control debate raging after the Aurora shooting last week, we hear that Florida will soon have one million people in possession of concealed weapons.
Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti might have just taken home our Monday morning honors for having the tackiest political event in light of the Aurora massacre, with his $30 per-person Dark Knight fundraiser in Florida tonight.
Today's post about Samuel Williams, the 71-year-old man who fired upon two robbers fleeing from an Internet cafe in Florida, solicited a pretty informative comment.
Samuel Williams was just your average 71-year-old chilling in an Ocala, Florida, Internet cafe with a concealed weapon ... until the robbers showed up.
There's a hot little rumor out there that Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll, a GOP rising star, had an intra-office affair with a woman, which is totally false because, according to Carroll, she's not single or bad-looking enough to be a lesbian.
Views on race impact Obama more than views on Mormonism impact Romney, Americans have mixed opinions on health care, and nothing's clear in swing states. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Attorneys for George Zimmerman have requested a new judge in his trial for shooting Trayvon Martin, alleging current judge Kenneth Lester Jr. is biased and they can no longer get a fair trial.
George Zimmerman was easygoing with police when they arrived at the scene of Trayvon Martin's shooting, but according to new evidence from the FBI, he was afraid for his life in the weeks after the shooting became national news and even tried to buy more guns.
What happens if you're facing the worst tuberculosis outbreak the CDC has seen in 20 years? If you're Florida Governor Rick Scott, it involved covering up the fact, signing laws shrinking the state's Department of Health, and shutting down the hospital where TB cases had been treated for the past 60 years.
George Zimmerman has a safe house in Seminole county, Florida and that's where the defendant in the Trayvon Martin killing headed after walking out of jail Friday on $1 million bail, for which $20,000 in donations came in over 24 hours.
The charge that Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman hid fundraising proceeds from the court during his first bail hearing didn't stop a Florida judge from granting him bail once more, but the court significantly increased the size of his bond.
While Mitt Romney is polling pretty close to President Obama nationally, the president has a wider lead in swing states, and the findings suggest TV ads are making a difference. Plus, Obama's new immigration policy doubles his lead among Florida Latino voters.
Gurudeo "Buddy" Persaud, whom the SEC charged with defrauding investors and running a Ponzi scheme, knew enough not to tell people his investment strategy was "based on lunar cycles and the gravitational pull between Earth and the moon," but not quite enough to, you know, not invest money based on lunar cycles and the gravitational pull between Earth and moon.
To get reelected, Republican governors in swing states need to say they've led their states to over growing economies, but to get Mitt Romney elected, they need to say their economies are awful and it's President Obama's fault. It is a tricky needle to thread, and Florida Rick Scott is not doing it very well.
Florida Governor Rick Scott is okay with removing thousands of names from the voting rolls in his state, because his name was once removed from that same because Florida thought he was dead.
Things are not going well for the Zimmerman family: After a judge revoked George Zimmerman's bail on June 1, his wife Shellie Zimmerman was arrested on Tuesday for perjuring herself during his original bail hearing.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney pounces on President Obama's comment that the private sector is "fine," a pro-Obama Super PAC launches several ads attacking Romney as a jerk, and Allen West shows his warm and fuzzy side.
An Orlando judge revoked George Zimmerman's bond yesterday and ordered him to return to jail. ThinkProgress obtained the prosecutors' motion that shows exactly how the Zimmermans deceived the court, and how their phone conversations while he was in jail busted them.
The judge in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder case revoked his bond on Friday, saying he misrepresented his financial status in his original bond hearing last month.
Mitt Romney has said if Republicans don't get more popular among Latinos, they're "doomed." So far, he's still not too popular.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney fantasizes about President Romney, President Obama loves higher-ed because he loved his mom, Karl Rove's Super PAC gets into the Nebraska Senate race, and Democrats gloat over the negative coverage of Romney's business career.
Now that the general election is heating up, it's time to pay attention to the swing states that pick the president. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Judge Kenneth Lester did not order Zimmerman back into custody after learning about $200,000 Zimmerman had raised online, saying he would wait to make that decision until he had all the facts about Zimmerman's donations and PayPal accounts.
In the most discomfiting of petty crime news today, a Florida man will be charged with a felony for allegedly filling up on stolen soda with the complimentary water cup a cashier provided him at McDonald's.
Bill Lee, the chief of the Sanford Police force when it didn't arrest George Zimmerman back in February, apparently thought this whole Trayvon Martin thing would blow over, and only stepped down temporarily last month so he wouldn't be a distraction.
George Zimmerman has been pretty quiet since he became the focus of one of the most racially-charged crime stories in years, and he should probably stay that way because the couple of times he's spoken out, it hasn't gone well.
Mitt Romney is polling just behind President Obama in Florida, a state he needs to win to get enough electoral votes unseat the president. While he's behind Obama on a lot of issues, Romney has an advantage on the economy. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
After a hearing that took an unexpected twist when he apologized to Trayvon Martin's family, George Zimmerman has been granted $150,000 bail, with conditions that he'll be monitored, have a curfew, and can't drink.
The controls of an airplane might just top the list of worst places to lose consciousness.
Mitt Romney and President Obama have the same personality weaknesses -- cool, uninterested in making new friends, impatient with small talk -- that can limit their effectiveness with lawmakers. They also have the same electoral weakness: blue-collar workers and college-educated whites.
Local news beats CNN in predicting this story: George Zimmerman got a new judge today after the sitting judge in his murder trial has recused herself over a conflict of interests.
When George Zimmerman appears before a judge on Friday, it probably won't be the same one he saw last week, as she plans to announce Wednesday whether she'll leave the case, something she already said she'd do should one of the lawyers request it.
The American Legislative Exchange Council announced Tuesday that it's "refocusing" on pushing business-friendly laws in states across the country instead of legislation like Florida's Stand Your Ground law or Arizona's illegal immigration law.
It's a strange Constitutional quirk that the voters of only a couple states will be lavished with -- and tortured by -- attention from the presidential candidates till November.
George Zimmerman might get out of jail as early as next week, his lawyer said late on Thursday, telling the Associated Press Zimmerman would most likely get a bail hearing on April 20.
In a court appearance that lasted all of three minutes, George Zimmerman had his arraignment and bail hearing scheduled for May 29, and will stay in custody until then.
George Zimmerman's former attorneys say their client has gone rogue, which may be true, but they're the ones whose professional conduct is baffling legal experts.
The special prosecutor pursuing a case against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin will move ahead on the case without involving a Grand Jury, State Attorney Angela Corey announced on Monday.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is well known for loving guns and threatening vigilante violence, so it's pretty easy to guess what he'd think of Florida's Stand Your Ground law that has come under criticism after the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The American Legislative Exchange Council is a low-profile interest group with high-profile corporate members that aims to write and pass business-friendly laws, but it's tough to argue what one of its successes, Florida's Stand Your Ground self-defense law, has to do with business, and that's why the group was dropped by Coca-Cola Monday.
After the Republican primary's many debates and many gaffes, Mitt Romney is a weaker candidate against President Obama. Obama is ahead in three important swing states, and way more personally popular. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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