Gators for McCain chairman resigns
The alt-weekly, The Independent Florida Alligator reports: “Not all Republicans were there to protest. “I wanted to see the next vice president of the United…
More anti-Morgan flyers
The thugs are out again, doing their best to defeat Republican candidate for Escambia County Sheriff, David Morgan. Here are the flyers placed on cars…
Ford owns PCC
Rev. Timothy May, brother of House Dist. 3 candidate Lumon May, reports things got off to a rocky start at the Pensacola Christian College precinct….
IN blogging today
We have reporters around town observing what is happening at the various polling places. Join in and let us know what you see, too.
Election predictions
We polled 54 area leaders and asked them who thought would win today, not who they voted for. Here the results: 1) President John McCain:…
What about House District 3
In 2004, there were 60,286 votes cast in Escambia County in the House District 3 race. This means about 60 percent of those people have…
City at 60 percent of 2004 voting turnout
In the last presidential election, Nov. 2004, Pensacola residents cast 30,778 votes. That puts the 2008 early voting and absentee ballot returns (as of 11/1)…
City voting over 90 percent of 2006 votes cast
In 2006 general election, 20,365 Pensacola residents voted. This means 91.38 percent of those that voted in 2006 have already voted in 2008. Here is…
City voting as of Nov. 1 close
Here the early voting and absentee ballots received, as per Stafford’s office: City 1: 2,818 — 48% of all registered voters City 2: 2,406 —…
Oops, there was an Escambia murder in Oct.
Arthur James Roland, 28, of Pensacola was found shot to death inside a Buick LeSabre about 7 p.m. on Oct. 30 near North S and…
House District 3
This is just the Escambia County portion of the District. The race pits Republican Clay Ford vs. Democrat Lumon May. Early voting only in House…
Final Early Voting stats
From Escambia County Supervisor of Elections, David Stafford: These are Early Voting only — does NOT include Absentees returned. 6,172 – Nov. 1, 2008 49,184…
College newspapers back Obama 63-1
According to Editor & Publisher, the student paper at Ole Miss, The Daily Mississippian, is the lone paper endorsing John McCain. Republican-roots run deep at…
GOP talk show strategy
There is an email circulating among the Republican faithful asking them to inundate the radio shows of WCOA’s Luke McCoy and NewsRadio 1620’s Bubba Bechtol…
Senate: GOP will lose seats
Currently the Democrats hold 51 seats in the U.S. Senate. Three Republican senators are retiring — in Colorado, New Mexico and Virginia — one, Ted…
But what about the Electoral College?
Obama leads in every state that Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry won four years ago, which gives him a base of 252 electoral votes of…
WWND?
GOP political expert, Roger Stone, asks on his website, stonezone.com: What would Nixon do? Stone cut his political teeth working for Richard Nixon. He asserts…
More than third of Floridians have voted
Sarasota Herald Tribune reports that the latest statistics show 34 percent of the state’s 11.2 million voters have cast a ballot in the general election…
Obama pulls further ahead
Over the years, one of the most reliable polls has been Gallup. Their latest poll shows Barack Obama leads John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily…
Miami had no murders in October
Looks like Escambia and Santa Rosa counties had none also. Although Santa Rosa had two in the last week of September: A Santa Rosa County…
