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Florida’s economy presents a challenge to the two presidential candidates.The state’s unemployment rate has fallen over the past year. And home prices in…

Both political parties are featuring high-profile convention speakers who once were on the other side. They get a lot of attention, but their new partisan paths don't always lead to long-term career success.

There's still a "mystery speaker" on the schedule for Thursday night. A report that Dirty Harry is headed to Tampa has set off speculation that he'll be taking the stage.

Mitt Romney's strategy for November relies on white working-class voters — perhaps too heavily, some analysts suggest, given the growing share of the electorate made up of nonwhites. It's an issue the party is trying to address at its convention, with a speaker lineup loaded with high-profile minority officeholders.

The Republican National Convention is trying to build a bridge to more female voters.

Most Floridians are used to the heat and humidity. But this week, about 50,000 extra people are in Tampa, and some of them aren't used to the…

"They have now adopted a Republican Party platform that is the most extreme in the history of American politics when it comes to women's access to the…

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…