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Local Democrats In Competitive Races for U.S. Congress

Two local Democrats, Whitney Fox and Pat Kemp, are running for Congress in competitive races in Pinellas and Northeast Hillsborough, parts of Polk and Pasco Counties. They joined us on MidPoint one week...

Senate Democrats oust leader with 3 days left to Session

Florida Senate Democrats Wednesday voted to remove their leader in a stunning move with just three days left to the legislative session. Senate Democrats unanimously took a vote of no confidence in Senate Minority Leader...

With Obama-style strategies Republican Party might’ve turned Florida from swing state to solid red

Joe Biden is the President-elect of the United States, even as some election officials count votes in states where victory seems assured but it is too close the call. In Florida though, President Donald Trump’s...
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New “Autopsy” of Democratic Party Says Party Needs to Move in More Progressive Direction

Thursday Radioactivity 11 2 17 Welcome. I’m Rob Lorei. Why did the Democratic Party lose so many races last year? —From governor’s races to Senate to the House to the presidency—the Democrats were trounced. This...
Bernie Sanders in Kissimmee, Florida. By Seán Kinane

Bernie Sanders delegates from Florida reflect on DNC

On MidPoint we spoke with two local delegates who just returned from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia; Jessica Vaughn (Hillsborough County) and Amos Miers (Pinellas County) were Bernie Sanders delegates from Florida. Welcome to WMNF’s...

Women’s Show – Platforms…Who reads? We do

We are coming down to crunch time….. This has gone beyond mud fights and something tells me the game hasn’t even begun.  The conventions are coming up in just a few weeks.  Do the platforms...

Democratic senate candidate Alan Grayson blasts rivals on Radioactivity Friday

By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Friday, our guest was Congressman Alan Grayson, a democrat who is running for a seat in the US Senate. Grayson graduated from Harvard Law School and currently represents Florida’s 9th Congressional District...

WEDU’s Florida this week looks at growing schism within the Democratic Party

By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Monday we listened back to the latest episode of Florida this Week, a public affairs discussion show from local PBS station WEDU that is also moderated by Rob Lorei ....
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Listeners weigh in on Democratic debate

On Saturday the three candidates vying for the Democratic Party presidential nomination debated on prime-time television. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley battled about a range...

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