• A new Florida Chamber of Commerce poll suggests the the GOP will sweep all statewide offices — with Republicans leading in the U.S. Senate, governor, attorney general, CFO, and agriculture commissioner races.
  • Congressional races are looking almost as rosy. An internal poll from Steve Southerland in the 2nd district now shows him beating incumbent Allen Boyd by a 46-30 margin. The district is rated R+6, and blue-dog Boyd was a “yes” on both cap-and-trade and health-care reform — which helps explain the 60-percent job disapproval found by the poll. Three-hundred likely voters were surveyed, giving the poll a 5.66-percent margin of error.
  • Rubio is under fire again for usage his party credit card, this time for an auto reimbursement.
  • Mike Huckabee has preconditions before he will consider endorsing GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott due to an accusation leveled against him when he supported Scott’s primary rival Bill McCollum. Here’s what Huckabee told Time:
During the primary I supported McCollum and came and did an event for him in Jacksonville. And it was during that time that, I don’t know if it was Scott or one of his people, that said that someone from my PAC had approached him and essentially had said that if they would pay us a certain amount of money that we would endorse him. I mean it was outrageously untrue and it really was offensive. But I’ve not heard anything from him or his campaign since but before I would be able to get involved, I would have to have that clarified. He would have to come out and say either somebody misspoke or that was just a boneheaded moment of frustration because that never happened.
  • Like many besieged incumbents, Suzanne Kosmas, the freshman Democrat from the 24th district, is raising Social Security bogeymen, suggesting her opponent, state legislator Sandy Adams, wants to privatize the program, “risking our retirement on the reckless ways of Wall Street.” Adams says she wants to do no such thing — although she redeems her case slightly by then praising Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap.”