Tonight's CNN televised debate (at 8 p.m.) may be now or never for Newt Gingrich in his quest to win Florida and ultimately the GOP nomination for President.
Yes, both a TIME/CNN and a Quinnipiac survey released yesterday shows the race to be close to dead even (Mitt Romney leads Gingrich 36 to 34 percent), but the polls show Romney leading among non-evangelicals and voters with a college-degree by a larger margin than Gingrich held among the opposite groups, trends that some political minds believe auger well for the former Massachusetts Governor in the Sunshine State.
Some believe if Gingrich has any shot, he needs the Tea Party to rise up for him, big-time.
St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster spoke Wednesday at the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club. Our Arielle Stevenson has a report.
And Illinois U.S. Senator Dick Durbin visits Tampa tomorrow to shed light….or something, on Florida's controversial elections law passed last year by the Legislature.
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2012.