With the presidential election behind us, the number crunching across the country begins. TR has tabulated the votes in each of the five Leon County voting districts for the presidential race that featured Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and the US Senate race between Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy. The tabulation is shown in the […]
By: Allysa Mears (pictured above: From left to right: Zach Yopp, 2014 NFC Grad, now at West Point; Jack Marsh, NFC senior; Tanner Clemons, NFC senior; Jacob Wynn, NFC senior) Jack Marsh, Tanner Clemons, and Jacob Wynn, three seniors at North Florida Christian, continue to navigate the process required to secure a coveted nomination for […]
The story of Jeb Bush versus Marco Rubio in the Sunshine State, new presidential campaign finance reports show, is a tale of two cities. First, look to Tallahassee to see which 2016 candidate the GOP establishment favors: Former Gov. Bush, whose onetime aides, advisers and operatives dominate the lobbying corps centered in the Florida capital, […]
In America, class resentments center on money. ‘Yes, I am ‘nouveau riche,’ but then, it’s the ‘riche’ that counts, now isn’t it?” So declared Jim Williams in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. And in the American context, that is broadly true: There are at least two senses of the word “class,” and […]
They use words like “historic” and “charismatic,” phrases like “great potential” and “million-dollar smile.” They notice audience members moved to tears by an American-dream-come-true success story. When they look at the cold, hard political math, they get uneasy. An incipient sense of anxiety is tugging at some Democrats — a feeling tersely captured in four […]