Florida

Florida's 23rd state Senate district includes all of Sarasota County and coastal Charlotte County. It's 91.6% white, very red. Trump beat Hillary here 55.26% to 40.86%. This year one part of the district went through a widely publicized GOP lunatic episode/political scandal that shook up the whole area. Florida Republicans expected their candidate, Joe Gruters, to waltz into the Senate.

Total lesser-of-two evils race (FL-26)In August GBA Strategies, working for the DCCC, polled FL-26 voters and found incumbent Carlos Curbelo 7 points ahead of Democratic challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.

Writing for the National Journal this morning, Charlie Cook predicted "net gains for Democrats in governorships of between six and a dozen, and a pickup for Democrats of between 400 and 650 state legislative seats, more than the average midterm loss of 375 seats for the party in the White House.

Will Andrew save the Florida Senate seat too?Florida's gubernatorial race still looks good. There have been 14 polls that I know of since the primary. Andrew Gillum is ahead in every single one of them, although some have been within the statistical margin of error.

NextGen America and For Our Future are two PACs financed by Tom Steyer. They spent $1.4 million dollars in the Florida Democratic gubernatorial primary helping Andrew Gillum overcome huge odds to beat two conservative Democrats, Gwen Graham and Philip Levine. But you ain't seen nothin' yet. Yesterday Steyer told the NY Times that he will spend more money in Florida this fall than in any other state.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: CBD can help your brain; Bad things do happen to bad people; And a high court confirms what we already knew: sharing food is not a crime.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: CBD can help your brain; Bad things do happen to bad people; And a high court confirms what we already knew: sharing food is not a crime.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: CBD can help your brain; Bad things do happen to bad people; And a high court confirms what we already knew: sharing food is not a crime.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: CBD can help your brain; Bad things do happen to bad people; And a high court confirms what we already knew: sharing food is not a crime.

Joe Donnelly greets a right-wing rapist Trump wants confirmedThus cycle, I have very mixed emotions when it comes to writing about conservative Democrats. I am fully aware about what kind of damage they do to progressivism by relentlessly pulling the Democratic Party towards the right and usually reject less-of-two-evils politics-- the #1 organizing principle of the 21st century Democratic Party. But, this cycle... Trump.