Excuse me while I say a few words on behalf of us Fake Americans. ...more

October 24, 2008

City voters will decide during the Nov. 4 election whether candidates for city council and mayor should live in the city for at least six months prior to running for office. ...more

October 22, 2008

Nina Stanke is too young to drive, but for her 16th birthday, she's getting the right to vote. ...more

September 26, 2008

Let us swing the door ajar and invite the elephant into the room. One big reason Barack Obama is locked in a tight race, rather than easily outdistancing his opponent, is because he is black. ...more

September 10, 2008

Four years ago, while working as a senior adviser in NATO's Brussels, Belgium, headquarters, I got an up-close look at the way al-Qaida's best minds see Western elections. On March 11, 2004, Spain was rocked by perhaps the bloodiest terrorist attack in Europe since World War II, as bombs ripped apart commuter trains in Madrid, leaving nearly 2,000 Spaniards dead or injured - three days before the country went to the polls. ...more

September 7, 2008

Sen. John McCain, the former prisoner of war whose bid for the White House appeared in complete collapse just one year ago, accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday with a pledge to move the nation beyond "partisan rancor" and narrow self-interest. ...more

September 5, 2008

The breathless electorate of Florida's 9th Congressional District can rest easy tonight. Anita de Palma has bestowed her unequivocal endorsement on Bill Mitchell, her former rival and, as of Tuesday, the Democrats' nominee to take on incumbent Gus Bilirakis. ...more

August 31, 2008

Hernando County School Board, District 4 Voters should expect a tight race in the Tuesday, Aug. 26, primary between the three gentlemen vying for the District 4 seat on the Hernando County School Board. ...more

August 21, 2008

Well before Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain rose to the top of their parties, a partisan shift was under way at the local and state level. For more than three years starting in 2005, there has been a reduction in the number of voters who register with the Republican Party and a rise among voters who affiliate with Democrats and, almost as often, with no party at all. ...more

August 5, 2008

only Iowa, New Hampshire, and New Mexico switched parties. This result set begat the rigid pundit orthodoxy that America has become a "50-50 nation" - about half "blue" (Democrat), about half "red" (Republican), with the handful of "purple states" (the Ohios, Michigans and Floridas) that have become the critical and deciding battlegrounds. ...more

July 30, 2008