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Attorney General Bill McCollum has had a dramatic change of heart on Arizona's new immigration law. Here's what he said on April 27: "I think Arizona has its own unique problems. I don't think Florida should enact laws like this -- quite that far out.' Now he says some amendments to the law -- which failed to mollify most critics, including, apparently, former Gov. Jeb Bush -- have made it palatable, and that he would support a similar measure in Florida. McCollum's statement: As state and local law enforcement officials in Arizona begin to implement the states aggressive new border...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Bill McCollum's early entry into the 2010 Florida governor's race may be paying off. Florida's Republican attorney general has a 10-point lead over his Democratic opponent, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, in a new poll released Wednesday by the Quinnipiac (Conn.) University Polling Institute. McCollum was favored by 41 percent compared to 31 percent who preferred Sink in a random telephone survey of 1,618 registered voters taken Jan. 20-24. McCollum seemed to get a bump from his promise to challenge the constitutionality of any federal health care bill that requires people to buy health insurance, which was...

Liberals are ecstatic over the latest “Tell-All” from Scott McMullen while Conservatives really don’t know how to react. Consider the dynamics of Scott McMullen and determine if you, the reader, would really want to have a guy like this anywhere around you? His friends and co workers say he never gave any indication that he was annoyed, disgruntled or even mildly disturbed at the things he saw being done within the White House. Their claim, pretty much in unison, is “This is not the Scott we knew”. Only Nancy Polosi, with her lack of appreciation for anything American, “entirely agrees”...

In about one week, Wisconsin voters will pick the state's next governor, and the latest numbers show a tight race between the two main party candidates. A new poll by UW-Milwaukee's Center for Urban Initiatives and Research shows Jim Doyle's lead over Gov. McCallum has shrunk. Of the 505 resident surveyed by telephone last week, 38-percent said they'd vote for Doyle. While 36-percent said they'd vote for McCallum. A UW-Milwaukee poll conducted in August, had Doyle leading the governor by 15-percentage points. Eight percent of those polled in the most recent survey said they'd vote for Libertarian Ed Thompson, and...