Good morning everyone.
Well, the Florida presidential primary is history, and with it, almost any idea that somebody other than Mitt Romney could become the Republican nominee for president against Barack Obama later this year. Romney took the Sunshine State decisively, winning by 14 percentage points in a race called immediately after the polls closed in Northwest Florida.
Although there are still plenty of primary races to come (46 states to go! as the signs at the moribund Gingrich headquarters said last night), the heads of the Republican and Democratic national parties couldn't help but use the presidential primary date as an excuse to project who might take the state in November, where Florida's 29 electoral votes will be crucial.
The legislative session up in Tallahassee is nearly half over. Today there's a big vote on privatizing most of the prisons in South Florida.
This article appears in Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2012.