TEMPLE TERRACE – Starting Monday, the Temple Terrace Public Library will offer early voting for the two weeks leading up to the Jan. 29 Florida presidential preference primaries, city officials said. Registered voters may cast ballots at the library from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Jan. 19 and Jan. 21 through 26. ...more

January 8, 2008

Some write e-mails and some slap stickers onto their bumpers. Others hold signs along busy street corners. ...more

January 6, 2008

Rudolph Giuliani came to Tampa the day after Christmas and spent more than an hour with the Tribune's editorial board seeking the paper's support. ...more

January 6, 2008

For Sadou Brown in a Los Angeles suburb, the decisive victory of Sen. Barack Obama in Iowa was a moment to show his 14-year-old son what is possible. ...more

January 5, 2008

TAMPA Rudy Giuliani began a three-day campaign swing in Florida on Wednesday, calling for a larger U.S. military and pushing an economic stimulus plan that he says will help the middle class by cutting corporate taxes. ...more

December 26, 2007

SEBRING — The head of Florida's Democratic Party has assured Highlands County's rank and file that its delegates will be seated at the national convention, Aug. 25-28, in Denver. Karen L. Thurman, who chairs the state party, is "confident that when it is all said and done, our delegation will ... travel to Denver for the National Convention," said Pam Holt, a spokeswoman for the Highlands County party. That's true, said Mark Bubriski, communications director, and it's coming from other party leaders as well. By August, he reasoned, the primaries will be long gone, and so will be the issue of which state held its election first. In eight months, the more important issue will be whether the Democratic Party really wants to upset the voters of Florida and Michigan. ...more

December 24, 2007

It's about to happen again. Three states - Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina - that combined don't have as many electoral votes as Florida will have disproportionate influence in determining the next leader of the free world. ...more

December 23, 2007

In April, when 2,000 people jammed the Cuban Club courtyard in Ybor City to see Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, it was the most exciting event yet in this presidential campaign season, and convinced Obama supporters he could challenge frontrunner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York in Florida. ...more

December 18, 2007

With his frontrunner status in the GOP presidential primary in jeopardy, Rudy Giuliani will give a major speech in Tampa on Saturday that top campaign aides hope will "mark a turning point in the campaign." ...more

December 14, 2007

Millions of people who applied for naturalization and other immigration benefits to beat a midsummer fee increase are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in time to vote in next November's presidential election. ...more

November 23, 2007