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Obama, others push for an overhaul of Florida's elections system after long waits
By Michael Van Sickler and Steve Bousquet
Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Related: Debate over early voting won't end after 2012
Related editorial: In election, Florida is state of embarrassment
The lines to vote in Florida were so long that President Barack Obama took time at the start of his re-election speech early Wednesday morning to point it out.
Strong turnout for Barack Obama tilts Florida his way
By Adam C. Smith
Tampa Bay Times
Related: Florida results, county by county
The optimism among Mitt Romney's Florida campaign team was clear on Twitter throughout Election Day.
Hispanics, women, young voters boosted Obama in Florida
By Scott Powers and Jim Stratton
Orlando Sentinel
President Barack Obama's re-election was a tiny landslide: an electoral college cakewalk, built on slim margins in battleground states.
Democrats chip away at GOP power in Tallahassee
By Toluse Olorunnipa and Brittany Alana Davis
Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee Bureau
Related: Democrats score legislative wins across Central Florida
Before Tuesday, Florida Republicans had the wind at their back — record amounts of special interest money, a veto-proof majority in the Legislature and unbridled power all over the state.
Rep. Allen West wearing out his welcome with latest congressional race
By Frank Cerabino
Palm Beach Post
Related: West still fighting loss to Murphy as Palm Beach County continues to count
Related editorial: West race showed that extremism is a losing campaign
I’m sure Allen West has a bright future. Just not anywhere around here.
Parties gird for legal war as Dorworth's political career at risk
By Jason Garcia
Orlando Sentinel
With future Republican House Speaker Chris Dorworth's political career on life support, Seminole County elections officials will meet today to review provisional ballots that could sway the incredibly close contest for a Seminole County state House district.
FLORIDA
POLITICS
Florida, still counting votes, winds up not counting in 2012 presidential election
By Kathleen Haughney
Orlando Sentinel
In the end, Florida didn't actually matter at all.
Absentee ballots, voting delays put harsh light on South Florida election
By Curtis Morgan, Jay Weaver, Patricia Mazzei
Miami Herald
As Alfie Fernandez waited six hours to vote at the West Kendall Regional Library, she already knew TV networks had called the bitterly contested presidential race for Barack Obama. But she hung in there, anyway.
After Romney loss, voting problems in Florida, Scott stays on message
By Tia Mitchell
Tampa Bay Times
After meeting with top education officials Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott took some time to answer a few questions about the election.
Democrats think 2012 gains will pay off in 2014
By Bill Cotterell
Florida Current
Florida Democrats showed signs of a political revival in this year's general election, sweeping statewide races and gaining seats in both chambers of the Legislature.
Greer trial moving forward after sides reach email agreement
By Aaron Sharockman
Tampa Bay Times
The attorney for former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer says it's conceivable his criminal fraud case could begin as scheduled next year after he worked out a deal for a defense computer expert to search GOP computer servers for emails he believes are pertinent to his defense.
POLITICAL
RACES
Democrats pick up six, possibly seven, seats in Florida legislature
By John Kennedy
Palm Beach Post
Badly outnumbered Democrats look poised to gain five seats in the state House and a pair in the Senate, possibly including a big, symbolic victory with the apparent toppling of a Republican lawmaker on track to become House Speaker.
Obama, buoyed by election win, faces new battles
Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland
Reuters
President Barack Obama had little time to savor victory on Wednesday after voters gave him a second term in the White House where he faces urgent economic challenges, a looming fiscal showdown and a still-divided Congress able to block his every move.
How did the presidential pollsters do in Florida?
By Aaron Sharockman
Tampa Bay Times
Pre-Election Day polls in Florida predicting Mitt Romney would comfortably win the state’s 29 electoral votes were quite wrong, it turns out.
BALLOT
INITIATIVES
Complexity, agenda help defeat 8 of 11 amendments
By Bill Kaczor
Associated Press
Style as well as substance likely played a role in the rejection by Florida voters of eight of 11 proposed state constitutional amendments.
ENVIRONMENT
AND ENERGY
Amendment Will Preserve Lands
By Rick Dantzler, Manley Fuller & Preston Robertson
Lakeland Ledger
Since 1990, governors both Republican and Democratic have endorsed setting aside a portion of tax money generated from the transfer of real property to be used to protect and conserve our state's remaining lands and waters.
Feds urge more than $7 million in oil spill habitat rehab projects for state
By Bruce Ritchie
Florida Current
A state panel this week recommended that federal oil spill response plans for Florida coastal communities be updated in response to the 2010 Gulf oil spill with an emphasis on prioritizing natural areas that need protection.
LGBT
In shift, gay marriage racks up wins on the ballot
By Curtis Tate
McClatchy Newspapers
Supporters of same-sex marriage reached a major milestone in Tuesday’s elections, when Maryland and Maine became the first states where voters upheld marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.
Hallandale Beach passes ‘historic’ gay rights resolution, to reimburse tax for domestic partners
By Carli Teproff
Miami Herald
It’s been a good couple of days for the gay rights movement.
EDUCATION
Union pleads with Scott to halt use of test scores to judge teachers
By Leslie Postal
Orlando Sentinel
Florida's push to use student test scores to judge teacher performance should be halted this year, with Gov. Rick Scott using his executive authority to put a stop to a faulty system, the state teachers union says.
Scott, university leaders struggle over university funding puzzle
By Tia Mitchell
Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
A college degree is an investment, and the state's public universities need to show that they are providing good returns for both their students and Florida taxpayers, Gov. Rick Scott told members of the state Board of Governors on Tuesday.
FAMU And FSU Give Updates On Audits, Digital Domain
By Lynn Hatter
WFSU Tallahassee
Florida State and Florida A&M Universities went before the state university system’s governing board Wednesday to give updates on their ongoing issues.
JOBS,
BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
Director of Florida's beleaguered jobless benefits system received jobless benefits, travelled to Europe
By Gray Rohrer
Florida Current
Hunting Deutsch, a bank executive with 35 years of experience, lost his job during one of the most expensive bank failures of the Great Recession.
Siegel switches gears, reassures employees jobs are safe despite Obama's victory
By Richard Burnett
Orlando Sentinel
Despite President Barack Obama's re-election, Orlando time-share mogul David Siegel changed his tune Wednesday about his company's post-election prospects, reassuring his employees that massive layoffs are not imminent.
HEALTH
AND SENIORS
FL to miss exchange deadline
By Carol Gentry
Health News Florida
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Republican legislative leaders counted on Mitt Romney to win the election and repeal what they call “ObamaCare.”
Health Care Debate Revival
By Mike Vasilinda
Capitol News Service
Florida lead the fight against the Affordable Care Act (or Obama Care) at the U.S. Supreme Court and lost.
JUSTICE
AND THE COURTS
Justice is served
Editorial
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
An overwhelming majority of Florida voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment intruding on state courts and supported the retention of three qualified Supreme Court justices -- affirming the value of an independent, apolitical judiciary.
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