This week was already looking tough for Kendrick Meek, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Florida, who had fallen well behind Republican Marco Rubio and independent Charlie Crist.   On Monday, a new Zogby poll showed Crist closing the gap with Rubio, with Meek rapidly […]

Charlie Crist supporters will need to do a little extra digging on Tuesday when they head to the polls. Normally, Crist’s name would appear first or second on the ballot as the nominee for the Republican Party. In the Spring, Crist left the Republican Party […]

Readers of Uncovered Politics know that a lot of our attention gets focused on independent and minor party candidates for office. These candidates are often the “ultimate underdogs” and, even when they don’t win, frequently raise important issues and make a major impact on the […]

Trailing badly in recent polls, Charlie Crist’s independent candidacy for the U.S. Senate received some really positive news yesterday when a new Zogby Interactive poll showed the white-haired governor within striking distance of Republican Marco Rubio.

Economist Farid A. Khavari spoke out on Florida’s growing housing crisis to a group of supporters on Saturday. “Unemployment brings more foreclosures, and foreclosures create more unemployment,” said Khavari, who’s hoping to stage a miraculous come-from-behind victory to become only the second independent or minor-party candidate in history to capture the Florida governorship.

Iranian-born economist Farid Khavari is launching a last minute radio campaign to attempt to separate himself from the pack of minor party and independent candidates for governor. In a new ad which began airing on several Jacksonville stations this week, and is scheduled to expand […]

Third party activists would normally argue that all candidates on the ballot should be allowed to debate, but this event proved why that’s not always the right way to go. McMillan stole the show, and not in a good way…

Alex Sink’s chances of becoming the first Democrat to win the Florida governorship in sixteen years suffered a blow of sorts on Sunday afternoon when former Democratic rival Brian P. Moore endorsed the independent candidacy of Miami’s Farid A. Khavari.

Nathalie Dupree, a prominent Charleston chef and author whose numerous cookbooks have sold more than a half-million copies, unexpectedly entered South Carolina’s lopsided U.S. Senate race as a write-in candidate on Thursday.