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According to the headline of an online article in the Washington Times, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush believes that it's "time to leave Reagan behind." If true, this illustrates one of the reasons so many Americans have concluded that it's long past time to leave the Republican Party behind.

Warning that Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura's planned late September visit to Castro's Cuba would hurt Cuban workers and anti-government dissidents Florida's Gov. Jeb Bush asked his fellow governor to change his plans. In a letter excerpts of which were quoted in the Miami Herald Jeb Bush wrote: "I want to share some information that I hope will provide you with a broader and more-realistic picture of life in Cuba. While I don't expect you to cancel your trip, I strongly believe doing so would be the right thing to do. I encourage you to consider other options as you look...

New polls indicate that Janet Reno’s solid lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s governor has morphed to a statistical dead heat with relatively unknown challenger Bill McBride coming from way behind. As the Sept. 10 Democratic primary looms, the winner of that contest will face Gov. Jeb Bush on Nov. 5. In the Miami Herald, St. Petersburg Times poll, Reno, Bill Clinton’s attorney general for eight years, still remains slightly ahead - and was favored by 40 percent of those sampled, with 38 percent for McBride. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4.4...