Jacksonville
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I ran a bipartisan campaign, I have a bipartisan administration with Republicans and Democrats. I made a promise I would focus on governing, not politics.”
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President Barack Obama talks about ending the war in Iraq and helping veterans at the Prime Osborn Convention Center in Jacksonville, Fla., July 19.
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By Sandra Galleon, student reporter
Newt Gingrich visited with Jacksonville Mitt Romney supporters July 12.
The former U.S. House Speaker said, “Volunteers count. If a person cares enough, it sends a message — a signal that is a big deal. It really matters.”
Ashley Roberts, a UNF student…
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Evangeline Watson, a Democrat from Jacksonville, Fla., and Rene Avery, a Democrat from Montgomery, Ala., talk about women’s issues, health care and voting.
Listen to what they had to say when asked the following: Regardless of who you support, which candidate do you trust to do a better job addressing women’s issues — Obama or Romney? Why? -
President Obama has outspent Mitt Romney on television spots in Jacksonville, a sign the Obama campaign may see the conservative area as winnable.
From The Florida Times-Union:“Jacksonville residents have a front-row seat for presidential election battle,” said Matt Corrigan, head of University of North Florida’s Political Science department, who wrote a book about Jacksonville politics. He said he has never seen Democrats come out so early in the city.
“There is no doubt the Obama folks are targeting Jacksonville,” he said.
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Mitt Romney tried to make up ground with Hispanic voters in a speech today, promising a long-term solution to allow young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States, but offering just a few minor immigration proposals.
“Some people have asked if I will let stand the president’s…
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Despite predictions that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may choose Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as his vice president, ABC News reports Romney’s team has not even shortlisted Rubio.
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Frankly, the president’s executive action take[s] a lot of momentum out of Sen. Rubio’s push for a consensus, legislative solution. The president’s action undermines the urgency to pass something before the election — a hard enough prospect during an election year even before the newly inflamed politics surrounding the issue.”
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Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, visited Orlando on Tuesday to speak about health care and tax breaks for small business. From the Orlando Sentinel:
Speaking on the factory floor of Con-Air Industries of Orlando, a company that makes air filters, Romney also decried President Barack Obama as “out of touch,” repeatedly berating him for his comment last week that “the private sector economy is fine.”
“It’s time we have a president who is [in] touch with America. And I am.”
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In an effort to follow through with his decision to remove noncitizens from lists of registered voters, Gov. Rick Scott sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security June 11 over Florida’s recent voter purge.
The state claims the Department of Homeland Security unlawfully refused to give it access to databases that would aid the state in identifying and deleting noncitizens from voter rosters.
In immediate response to the suit, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Florida over the state’s possible violation of two federal laws in its voter purge.
From the Miami Herald:The state’s program is too “faulty” and comes too close to election time to not endanger the voting rights of thousands of lawful U.S. citizens, [Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E.] Perez wrote. He said Florida has repeatedly ignored Homeland Security’s warning that the department’s database, known as SAVE, isn’t designed for the noncitizen hunt on which Florida embarked.
Florida Elects: Newt Gingrich thanks volunteers in Duval County
Obama spends more money on TV ads in Jacksonville than Romney
Reuters Politics: Finally talking immigration, Romney addresses Latinos
ABC News: Romney’s VP search team not vetting Rubio
Romney: Obama out of touch with America
State of Florida, federal government sue each other over voter purge
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