This gave GOP candidates two massive advantages: 1) they didn’t have to spend on selling the GOP position, 2) all of
For 25 years, the GOP has had almost exclusive control of the FL legislature & admin.
It fashioned every law it could to advantage Republicans, gerrymandered at a bionic level & stymied popular efforts to increase voter participation such as restoration of felon voting rights.
This gave GOP candidates two massive advantages: 1) they didn’t have to spend on selling the GOP position, 2) all of
There is no biological way to overstate the advantage that Fox News gives to Republicans in red states. MSNBC is NOT the opposite of Fox News.
So when I say that Fox News is a huge advantage for the GOP, I know of what I speak.
Because GOP candidates at every level do not have to spend on messaging, and so not have to spend on attacking Dem policy, they spend almost exclusively on 2 things:
By contrast, Dems have to find their voters, build name recognition, fundraise non stop, defend against bottomless attack as spending, and try to clap back at
Dems spend 9/10ths of the cycle preaching to die hard Dem primary voters and because we have closed primaries, and then have to
DeSantis, who was straight pathetic on the campaign trail, was simply plugged in as the next one up, to a sophisticated and very well funded GOP a machine. He lost
So no matter who the Dem candidate for Governor or US Senate might be, he or she will lose if we put them in the same predicament as Gillum.
So if you were wondering how it is that such horrid GOP candidates win in a state
It’s time to speak hard truths about the fundamental problem at issue here.
The FDP focuses on registration and vote by mail campaigns. It also supports state-wide candidates with canvassing and
But what it does not do, is the kind of year-around messaging and voter contact that would make all the difference.
The FDP is NOT set up to do that, and has never really had the money to do it.
Florida has some amazing ancillary grassroots groups, but
Bottom line is huge swaths of the state see no Dem activity whatsoever, and Dem candidates in those areas get no help at all.
So here is a hard another truth. Floridian Dems cannot win Florida.
BUT AMERICA’S Dems absolutely CAN.
If Dems all across America decide that winning the 3rd most populous state, w/one of the fastest growing populations & (at least) 29 electoral votes, then we WILL win FL in 2022.
But it won’t happen trying to tinker with what we
Florida needs a state-wide permanent and professional voter contact, messaging and campaign support infrastructure, and that kind of thing will actually need to be built.
Doing so requires vision & most importantly, MONEY! Not money spent on consultants, pollsters &
Money to pay permanent professional staff to engage in real, sustained community engagement across the state, most especially in rural areas.
If we invest in standing that up, we will break the GOP stranglehold on FL. We WILL win back the 2 Congressional seats we lost
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The GOP got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster so they could jam through three fringy right-wing Alito clones, including one right before the election, but sure thing, bud.
“Uh, actually, they got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster because Harry Reid did it first for something totally different! I am very smart!”
No. Knock it off.
Here’s the thing about the “But Harry Reid...” excuse:
1. McConnell was holding up Obama nominees, some *for literal years* without a vote.
2. Had he *not* done that, Trump would have inherited *even more* vacant seats.

Sen. @JohnCornyn on budget reconciliation: "Chipping away at the rights of the minority may help you now. But you're sure to regret that someday." pic.twitter.com/12wwUkq43r
— The Hill (@thehill) February 1, 2021
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The GOP got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster so they could jam through three fringy right-wing Alito clones, including one right before the election, but sure thing, bud.
“Uh, actually, they got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster because Harry Reid did it first for something totally different! I am very smart!”
No. Knock it off.
Here’s the thing about the “But Harry Reid...” excuse:
1. McConnell was holding up Obama nominees, some *for literal years* without a vote.
2. Had he *not* done that, Trump would have inherited *even more* vacant seats.
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ElectronConf is a conf which chooses presenters based on blind auditions; the identity, gender, and race of the speaker is not known to the selection team. The results of that merit-based approach was an all-male panel. So they cancelled the conference.
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1/Politics thread time.
To me, the most important aspect of the 2018 midterms wasn't even about partisan control, but about democracy and voting rights. That's the real battle.
2/The good news: It's now an issue that everyone's talking about, and that everyone cares about.
3/More good news: Florida's proposition to give felons voting rights won. But it didn't just win - it won with substantial support from Republican voters.
That suggests there is still SOME grassroots support for democracy that transcends
4/Yet more good news: Michigan made it easier to vote. Again, by plebiscite, showing broad support for voting rights as an
5/OK, now the bad news.
We seem to have accepted electoral dysfunction in Florida as a permanent thing. The 2000 election has never really
To me, the most important aspect of the 2018 midterms wasn't even about partisan control, but about democracy and voting rights. That's the real battle.
2/The good news: It's now an issue that everyone's talking about, and that everyone cares about.
3/More good news: Florida's proposition to give felons voting rights won. But it didn't just win - it won with substantial support from Republican voters.
That suggests there is still SOME grassroots support for democracy that transcends
4/Yet more good news: Michigan made it easier to vote. Again, by plebiscite, showing broad support for voting rights as an
5/OK, now the bad news.
We seem to have accepted electoral dysfunction in Florida as a permanent thing. The 2000 election has never really
Bad ballot design led to a lot of undervotes for Bill Nelson in Broward Co., possibly even enough to cost him his Senate seat. They do appear to be real undervotes, though, instead of tabulation errors. He doesn't really seem to have a path to victory. https://t.co/utUhY2KTaR
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 16, 2018