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What one word best describes Mitt Romney? That's a question researchers posed to the public last fall, this spring and again in recent days. The answer has changed significantly. What once was an overwhelming focus on Romney's faith has shifted to descriptions of his character, wealth and career.

With a jutting chin and growing fearlessness, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan delivered a GOP convention takedown of President Obama Wednesday night, catapulting an already ugly campaign to a whole new level.

After a long day of marching and chanting, most protesters in the tent camp known as Romneyville are trying to get some sleep."We have the constant…

On Thursday's Florida Matters: The Convention, our phone lines lit up for Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn. He chatted with host Carson Cooper about everything…

It's official, finally.Actor and director Clint Eastwood is tonight's mystery speaker during the final session of the Republican National Convention,…

Largely overlooked amid the convention floor fight over Ron Paul's delegates and the delegate selection process was another rule approved at the same time. It would harshly punish any large state that jumps the line on the primary schedule in 2016.

It was Mitt Romney's big night. He got to tell the nation about what he wants to do. But the evening was also about President Obama. And, rather oddly, about Clint Eastwood.

If Republicans really do have a problem with the issue of immigration — as even former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush intimated on Thursday — you wouldn't know it from the litany of GOP convention speakers who have made a point of stressing their country of origin.

Appearing at a Republican convention that has barely mentioned President George W. Bush, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took a point of personal prerogative to honor his brother and scold the man who followed him into the Oval Office.

The Republican presidential nominee is being faulted for saying President Obama went on an "apology tour" and for things he claimed about Obama's tax and Medicare policies. But overall, independent fact checkers aren't finding many problems.

I was in search of a good protester or two - which, after the first two days of the Republican National Convention, became rather hard to find in downtown…

The University of South Florida's new veterans lounge is a place where former service members can kick back and relax or get some studying done.It's…

We’ve talked a lot about the protests and parties surrounding the Republican National Convention, and there have been a lot of them. But there’s a…

That's when Democratic vice-presidential nominee Burton K. Wheeler debated an invisible President Coolidge in front of a packed hall.

In a discussion with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep, Rich Beeson says Florida's 29 electoral votes are 'crucial' but not absolutely necessary to win in November.

Just 2 percent of delegates at the Republican National Convention were black. That's higher than the percentage that supported Mitt Romney in a recent poll: 0. And getting blacks on board may prove especially hard for the GOP presidential candidate given the tone of some recent campaign ads and a wave of new voter ID laws.

Democrats promised to layout a road map for getting the economy back on track by building it "from the middle out" and not from the "top down."

With Labor Day behind us, millions of Floridians are returning to work today--but taking home slimmer paychecks than in previous years, according to a new…

To borrow from baseball legend Yogi Berra, "It's déjà vu all over again" for protestors who attended last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa…

Elephants are iconic Republican and they’re also the closest living relative to the Florida manatee according to the Florida Wildlife website.So, it…

On Thursday, Tampa City Council will discuss pursuing a program that could attract wealthy, foreign investors to the area and in turn create new jobs for…

Thanks to all who called in during episode 1 of Florida Matters: The Convention, which aired live from the Tampa Convention Center on Aug. 24, 2012. We…

Full disclosure: I am very excited about this.As a transplant from the Midwest, I'm always giddy when a business I enjoyed up North comes to Tampa…

USF is hosting the first ever "Remember Our Heroes" concert and field party this Saturday. The event will benefit Soldiers' Angels, a non-profit group…

It was an older, battle-scarred nominee who faced his party in Charlotte, N.C. This message of hope was tempered and longer-view — a good distance if not a full turn from the vision he offered four years ago when he accepted the nomination in a thundering Denver stadium.