What the Dems had continue to done is to reduce elections to less than 1% victories. I'll be curious what point of a percent Trump is going to win in FL in 2020. Razor Margins are the new normal.BryanM wrote:It's been 18 years since Gore v Bush. Supposedly, demographic and cultural changes have favored the democrats during that period of time. A timespan of an entire generation. That they have not been able to improve beyond a dead tie would imply that their work over the last 18 years has actively decreased turnout there.
The demographics that favored Dems in FL has grow greatly over the last 5-10 years. The state has tons of young people and minorities who stereotypical vote for Dems. However, tons of old white elderly folks move to FL continually in high numbers every year. Besides no show, the tax environment is amazing for elderly retires: No tax on SS, 401k/pension, and no estate and inheritance tax. Also major homestead exceptions for property if you are elderly besides your major residence homestead exceptions (breaks if you are veteran and blind/death).
It's very common for elderly folks to sell their $400k+ home in NJ or New England, then use the funds on a home that's nicely built in FL for less than what the NJ home is worth, and have a tax savings of over $5k-$7k a year. A lot of them want to keep taxes low since they are on limited income (while yes I met some rich retirees over the years in FL, the majority of i met retirees aren't rich and have limited income). These are the guys if they had a chance they don't want their property taxes to pay for the local schools. It's true, a lot of elderly folks in FL don't want their monies to pay for schools. For these reasons, the majorly of elderly folks vote Republican. Anyone who is talking about raising taxes on anything (like Gillum on commercial taxes) will scare people away sadly.
And you wonder why FL doesn't have a good public school system? You are much better off moving to a liberal state where they pay teachers better. Also worth noted that these elderly voters vote almost at 90%, while young voters are closer to 30%. All about the turnout.
Actually their foot soldiers who knocked door to door where telling people to vote for 4. I confirm it.With their words. In the dark where no one can hear them.
But not with their money.
Which is similar to their position on wars of aggression.