As expected, Republican Dan Coats has surged into an early lead in the battle for Indiana’s open U.S. Senate seat as votes began trickling in shortly after the polls closed at 6 p.m. EST.   With less than one percent of precincts reporting, Coats, who has enjoyed […]

Stumping for independent aspirant Farid Khavari in Florida’s gubernatorial campaign, Brian P. Moore, a former Democratic candidate for governor, spared few adjectives in criticizing Republican Rick Scott’s plan to create 700,000 jobs in the Sunshine State over the next seven years.

Halloween began early for at least one Democrat in the Sunshine State. Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has spent much of the autumn campaign trying to distance herself from President Obama. She did so at her own peril, says Darcy G. Richardson, economist Farid […]

The Cincinnati CityBeat, a news and entertainment weekly magazine, has endorsed longtime social justice activist Dan La Botz, the Socialist Party’s nominee, in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race.  In supporting the 65-year-old former history and Latin American studies professor, the CityBeat made it clear that it […]

Trailing badly in recent polls, Charlie Crist’s independent candidacy for the U.S. Senate received some really positive news yesterday when a new Zogby Interactive poll showed the white-haired governor within striking distance of Republican Marco Rubio.

Economist Farid A. Khavari spoke out on Florida’s growing housing crisis to a group of supporters on Saturday. “Unemployment brings more foreclosures, and foreclosures create more unemployment,” said Khavari, who’s hoping to stage a miraculous come-from-behind victory to become only the second independent or minor-party candidate in history to capture the Florida governorship.

Alex Sink’s chances of becoming the first Democrat to win the Florida governorship in sixteen years suffered a blow of sorts on Sunday afternoon when former Democratic rival Brian P. Moore endorsed the independent candidacy of Miami’s Farid A. Khavari.

Nathalie Dupree, a prominent Charleston chef and author whose numerous cookbooks have sold more than a half-million copies, unexpectedly entered South Carolina’s lopsided U.S. Senate race as a write-in candidate on Thursday.