Going into the final weekend before the Florida GOP presidential debate, it looks like it did about 10 days ago – that Mitt Romney is going to take it. That doesn't mean there hasn't been a lot of ups and downs over the past week, but the two-toned combo of devastating attacks from the Republican establishment and then his lackluster debate performance, well, it wasn't a good day for Newt Gingrich.
A new story has surfaced that just hours before U.S. Senator Dick Durbin hosts a hearing on Florida's controversial new elections law. That report says that four Republicans involved in crafting the bill are avoiding a request for a deposition in a lawsuit challenging the law.
In last night's GOP debate, only Ron Paul went off the cliched path when it came to discussing Cuba. Yesterday in Tampa, Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor, who has been slow to embrace establishing more ties with the Communist island, gave her most full-throated support for making Tampa the 'gateway' to Cuba, though she still won't say when she'll visit the country.
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2012.