Florida

You’ve heard of carbon offsets; newspapers seem to be doing something similar with offsetting editorials for and against Norm Coleman’s legal appeals to reclaim his old U.S. Senate seat. Over the weekend it was the Wall Street Journal egging Coleman on (sorry, bad metaphor), while the Bemidji Pioneer, a reliable outpost of Coleman support in [...]

Jewish people are the “most liberal, scrappy civil-rightsy people there are,” says comedian Sarah Silverman, but if John McCain wins the presidency, that’s who she’ll be blaming. Specifically, she’ll blame Jewish Floridians like her grandparents. In a new (colorfully not-safe-for-work) YouTube video, she’s helping launch “The Great Schlep,” a movement urging Jews to “schlep over [...]

The media keeps getting Rep. Michele Bachmann’s home state wrong. Last week it was New Mexico and today it’s Florida — this time courtesy of Human Events, which reports that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson couldn’t assure Bachmann that his bailout plan would avert (in her words) “economic Armageddon.”

Hillary Clinton has said repeatedly that she will take her fight to seat the full Florida and Michigan delegations at the Democratic National Convention all the way to the convention if necessary, so don’t expect to see any solution when the party’s 30-member rules committee meets this weekend. The AP is reporting today that the [...]