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Florida is a purple state

• dmoy 4mo ago
  Kinda? Maybe? Florida, at least for local Florida stuff, like what GP is talking about, has had R governor, senate, and house for 25+ years. With a supermajority R for most of that I think.
• ks2048 4mo ago
  Interestingly, both FL and TX had the same vote for Trump in 2024: 56.1%
• vkou 4mo ago
  It was one 25 years ago.
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• ch4s3 4mo ago
  Not really anymore. The house seats are 20R and 8D, they haven't voted blue for president since Obama, and haven't elected a democrat as governor since the 90s. Voter registration is also heavily skewed republican.
  • jlarocco 4mo ago
    To be fair, "since Obama" isn't very long ago, and Hillary and Biden weren't very inspiring candidates, to say the least.
    • ch4s3 4mo ago
      It was 18 years ago, and I did point out other metrics to support my case.
      • jlarocco 4mo ago
        The 2016 election was 10 years ago.
    • nickv 4mo ago
      I get the sentiment but Obama won his second term in 2012 (12 years ago) and the last Democratic governor was in 1998 (28 years ago!) Florida hasn't been purple in a long time.
      • Jtsummers 4mo ago
        > 2012 (12 years ago) 14 years ago. If you just woke up from a two year nap, well, good luck catching up with everything that's happened.
• lazyasciiart 4mo ago
  The people, sure. The elected officials? Nope.
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• rayiner 4mo ago
  It used to be, just like Virginia used to be solidly red. But Trump won Florida by more than Harris won New York.