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With Images of Civil Rights, Blacks Urged to Vote

ATLANTA (Oct. 31) -- On the Sunday before Election Day, preachers told black churchgoers across the country to get out and vote - and defy predictions that they'll be complacent or uninterested in a year that President Barack Obama isn't on the ballot. Tying the vote to nostalgia and obligation, black pastors invoked the...

Meek Denies Clinton Urged Him to Quit Race

(Oct. 29) -- Behind in the polls but determined to soldier on, Rep. Kendrick Meek said on Friday "there was never a deal" made with Bill Clinton for him to drop out of the three-way race for the U.S. Senate in Florida. In a flurry of morning television interviews, the Democrat scrambled to clarify reports that he had...

Florida Senate Debate: What's an Independent?

(Oct. 24) -- There's not a lot new to learn about the policy positions of the three candidates for Senate in Florida who have been engaging in debates since mid-September and had yet another one on Sunday, nationally televised on CNN's "State of the Union."

Palin Rallies GOP in Florida, Says Time to Dig Deep

ORLANDO, Fla. (Oct. 23) -- The momentum of the midterm elections is with the GOP, but now is not the time for supporters to let up, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a jubilant crowd of Florida Republicans on Saturday. "Now is the time to dig deep," Palin said with 10 days to go until the elections....

Florida's Charlie Crist Tries to Distance Himself From President Obama

DAVIE, Fla. (Oct. 19) -- Gov. Charlie Crist tried to distance himself from President Barack Obama in a debate Tuesday after months of reaching out to Democrats in his independent bid for Senate, and Republican Marco Rubio made a case against the extremist tag his opponents are giving him. Crist, as he has in the last two...

Background on Kendrick Meek

Kendrick Brett Meek (born September 6, 1966) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for from 2003 to 2011. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2010 Senate election for the seat of Mel Martinez, but he and Independent Charlie Crist lost in a three way race to Republican Marco Rubio.

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