How did the Republicans win Florida governorships for 20 years if Florida is a swing state?
Florida is not a swing state. It is mostly Republican as far as the voting citizens is concernedNorthern rural Florida outside the main cities are rabid Republicans (heard the term “Crackers”?) , most Cubans in Miami are Republicans as well since Kennedy left them abandoned during Bay of Pigs invasion.This year was a close one, BUT the main reasons Republicans keep winning is the failure of the Democratic base and party to read the pulse of the rest of Floridians.ANY other of the Democratic contenders in the primary would have beaten the Trumpy DeSantis, but instead they chose a Socialist backed by Sanders, mayor of Tallahassee also clouded by a corruption investigation and did I also mention he was an African American? I voted for Gillum, but he was NOT my original choice.The moment Gillum mention Socialism and Sanders came to support, he lost any support he could have gotten from Cubans, Venezuelans or any other immigrant from communist countries.Maybe in the next election Democrats can become truly color blind and pick the BEST candidate with the chances to win instead of listening to promises of expensive benefit plans that had no chance of delivering.
Can Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida, beat incumbent Democratic senator Bill Nelson in the 2018 Senate elections?
As you may be aware, Florida is a swing state. Bearing this in mind, it will not come as a surprise that the Senate election in Florida is rated a toss-up by the vast majority of political pundits. There are a few factors in play:Bill Nelson has been a strong incumbent senator since 2001, having won election in 2000 and reelection in 2006 and 2012.In 2000, G.W Bush won Florida by less that 1 point, Nelson won his race by 5 points. In 2006 he won by 22 points and in 2013 by 13 points.It’s safe to conclude that this man knows how to win the Sunshine state.President Trump won Florida by about 1 point.Rick Scott won his elections in 2012 and 2016 both by about 1 point. So even though he is a 2 term governor, he is not performing as well as Nelson in past elections.Scott is an excellent fundraiser, having raised 22 million, compared to Nelson’s 17 million. While Scott has spent most of his money, Nelson has a cash-on-hand advantage.Scott holds a 27 points net approval, this means he can win the approval of some Democratic voters. Nelson holds a net approval of 17 points, suggesting he will not sweep Florida like he did before.So yes, Rick Scott can win the Florida Senate race this fall: Bill Nelson is a long-term incumbent with plenty cash-on-hand and a history of landslide elections but he will face a popular governor with a good fundraising base in a state the Republicans won in 2016.
Are you voting for Charlie Christ the independent in Florida? with hopes he will beat out the Nazi republican?
I will vote for Crist. I don't like the politics of the Tallahassee machine and the GOP in Florida, in general. The Jeb Bush machine is basically how Crist got "thrown out" of the GOP because Charlie did not support the Jeb Bush appointees when he arrived in Tallahassee as Governor. They need a shake-up. It's funny how so many support Rubio as an "outsider" but he is the Puppet for the Tallahassee machine the Tea Party was supposedly against. I will vote for Rick Scott, also, for similar reasons.
If you live in Florida, do you feel you have good choice to vote for governor?
A2A — No.In November, we will have our choice of two extremes — Ron DeSantis, a Tea Party conservative who co-founded the House Freedom Caucus. He’s currently my representative. I thought he was okay in Congress, I particularly appreciated his defense of the President, but I’ve long said that he is too conservative to run Florida, and that I was going to vote Democrat this year if DeSantis beat Adam Putnam in the primary.And then, the Democrats said “Hold my beer!” and, in a very fractured primary yesterday, elected the unelectable far left progressive Andrew Gillum. Gillum wants to “make corporations pay their fair share of taxes,” to pay for his giveaways and will mandate a $15 minimum wage, meaning that Florida will be losing jobs by the score when places like McDonalds automate entry level positions and companies leave the state in droves. Did no one learn anything from what just happened in Seattle?So I don’t know who I’m going to vote for, probably DeSantis, or else I’ll leave the ballot blank. I was ready to vote for Gwen Graham, and then the Democrats went all stupid on me. Blame it on Chris King and Jeff Greene, two sure thing losers who siphoned votes away from Graham and Philip Levine, the two candidates who could win in November.(I see that the virtue signalers are already out in force… DeSantis didn’t call Gillum a monkey, he said “don’t monkey with Florida’s economy with socialist programs.” I guess he should have said “don’t f*** up Florida’s economy with socialist programs” and then everyone would be fine. Equating the use of the word “monkey” in a sentence that doesn’t reference the candidate with racism is ridiculous.)
In your opinion, to what degree was the 2018 Florida Governor race affected by racism?
Gillum did not have a positive track record as the Mayor of Tallahassee. He still is under an FBI investigation regarding Bribery and influence peddling, our City is massively violent (the most violent City in Florida!) when you get worse than Miami, thats pretty bad. Obama and Bernie were here campaigning for him (they dont know how inept he is). I voted for him because I thought a do nothing is better than a bull in a china shop. Neither of these candidates were viable really. The black base voted for him about 100% but it wasn’t enough. You have to have something going on to run an campaign and he just didn’t have enough.