Voters in Tuesday’s Florida Republican primary chose Mitt Romney as the candidate best able to beat President Barack Obama in the fall, preferring electability over ideology in lifting the former Massachusetts governor to a broad victory despite concerns that his issue positions are not conservative enough.ROMNEY RECAPTURES ELECTABILTY: A majority of Florida GOP voters said Romney is the candidate    .. more …

Florida voters aren’t sure if they want Las Vegas-style casinos in the state, but they are certain they don’t want Tallahassee to make the decision, according to a new poll by The Miami Herald and other news organizations released late Sunday. A staggering 81 percent of likely Florida voters surveyed last week said they believe that any proposed changes to state gambling laws should    .. more …

LANSING, Mich., Jan. 28 (UPI) — Half of Michigan voters oppose legalizing marijuana for general use, a poll released Saturday indicated. Most have made up their minds on the issue, the Detroit Free Press-WXYZ-TV poll found. Only 5 percent of respondents said they are undecided, while 45 percent support legal pot.In 2008, 63 percent of Michigan voters approved a referendum to legalize marijuana    .. more …

Brown’s plan is to place on that ballot an initiative to temporarily raise the personal income tax on wealthy taxpayers while also temporarily raising state sales tax. Under his four-year plan, the sales tax would increase by 1/2 cent while millionaires and other high-income earners would pay as much as 2 percent more in taxes. Brown intends to put the measure on the ballot by collecting    .. more …

ISSAQUAH, Wash., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –As the national spotlight turns to Florida’s Republican Presidential Primary Election on January 31st, Florida voters living and serving overseas have been voting since December. Thanks to the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, the first ballots in the 2012 Presidential Primary were delivered through a one-stop web portal that allows    .. more …

The maxim “children should be seen, but not heard” seemed to be in effect at last night’s Republican presidential debate.Young voters packed into Myrtle Beach Convention Center.Young voters shook the hands of candidates prior to, and after, the debate.Young voters strategically positioned themselves behind the intended targets of Fox News cameras.One young voter even made it on to the three    .. more …

More than half of voters can’t name which state will hold its presidential primary after Iowa and New Hampshire this year, nor can they identify the GOP presidential contender who opposes U.S. involvement in Afghanistan .A new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press posed four questions to 1,507 adults and 1,165 registered voters between Jan. 4 and Jan. 8: Which GOP    .. more …