Politics

March 28, 2007 - Florida decided the 2000 presidential elections. Now, a bill that passed the state's house last week 115-1 could boost the Sunshine State's impact in 2008.

March 27, 2007 - There's been some interesting movement of late in the Republican Party to draft former Tennessee U.S. Senator and actor Fred Thompson to run for president in 2008. Although he won't say for sure if he's running, he has not ruled it out and appears to be testing the waters (and that's an understatement).

March 26, 2007 - The Attorney General scandal is now moving beyond questions of "who said what, and when did they say it" to the deeper issue of the political agenda that motivated the firings: rolling back voting rights.

March 23, 2007 - We wrote two weeks ago about one of the more startling examples of cronyism to emerge from the U.S. attorney scandal now engulfing Washington: the brazen move to replace Arkansas' Eastern District attorney Bud Cummins with Karl Rove's chosen replacement, J. Timothy Griffin.

March 22, 2007 - Here at Facing South, we've been following the attempted political revival of ex-Rep. Newt Gingrich (GA-R).

March 9, 2007 - In the 2006 U.S. elections -- an "off year" but still marked by many competitive races -- just over 55% of the voting-age public cast a ballot.

February 27, 2007 - The Middle Tennessee State University Survey Group semi-annual statewide poll is widely recognized and frequently quoted by the media, public officials, and political campaigns.