A new Mason-Dixon poll in Florida’s 27th congressional district finds Maria Elvira Salazar (R) edging Donna Shalala (D) by two points, 44% to 42% with 13% undecided.

Politico: “The big factor: Hispanics, who account for 57 percent of the voters and who came to know Salazar relatively well over her three decades broadcasting on Spanish language networks Telemundo, Univision, Mega-TV and CNN Español.”

Also important: “Shalala doesn’t speak Spanish, and Democrats have faulted her campaign for months for being so slow-footed that it was in ‘sleep mode.’”

The Miami Herald endorsed Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera (R), who is running for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s (R-FL) seat in the Republican primary, while calling her “a strong candidate in the race with plausible conservative ideas,” The Hill reports.

Rodriguez Aguilera said in a 2009 television interview that she boarded a spaceship occupied by aliens when she was 7 years old.

Donna Shalala (D), the former University of Miami president and Health and Human Services secretary, is officially running to replace retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the Miami Herald reports.