Marco Rubio, Republican candidate for Florida's U.S. Senate seat, is greeted after voting on primary day on August 24, 2010 in Miami, Florida.
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Our political coverage of the midterms turns to Florida. The Sunshine State has been in the international limelight for weeks, following Pastor Terry Jones’ threats to publicly burn Korans. With the bonfire cancelled and the 9/11 anniversary past, we talk this morning about a state full of voters whose opinions range the gamut on the Koran burning issue and the three-way race for U.S. Senate that’s been heating up for months.
Farai Chideya, host of WNYC’s three-part series “Pop and Politics," visited Florida over the weekend.
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But that does not mean the dinosaurs had internal thermostats to keep body temperature constant independent of the environment, the way mammals and birds do. For one thing, the dinosaurs must have had “the capacity to retain environmental heat just as a function of being so large.
One way to chart Florida is by the listenership of conservative talkers Glenn, Rush, and Sean vs. NPR/PRI/APM vs. liberal talkers including Steph, Thom, and Randi. Here in Miami, we both give and take jokes that South Florida should politically secede from Florida since our capital takes more money than it gives back. Look for Democrats Alex Sink (Gov.) and Kendrick Meek (Sen.) to win S. FL, Republicans Rick Scott (Gov.) and Marco Rubio (Sen.) to win Central FL aka the I-4 corridor, leaving N. FL as a toss-up possibly helping independent Governor Charlie Crist to become Senator despite his lack of party funding. Jim DeFede used to joke that Crist was the best Democratic governor Florida had, but that was before the 2008 financial implosion.
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