2/ Once upon a Time in the dark ages of the early 90s the Republican party of Florida got off its ass and started registering voters. This was during the era of Tom Slade, a two-fisted balls-out party chairman and after.
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1/ A few words about Andrew Gillum's plan to register a million new voters in Florida.
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3/ Then came the era of complacency and corruption with Charlie Crist and Jim Greer. (Wrote about it in
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4/ Fastest growing voter demo in Florida forever has been non-party affiliated. Basically a tie ball game between the Republicans and the Democrats. Democrats have seen greater greater growth in South Florida, Republicans in North Florida, broadly speaking.
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5/ Democratic party of Florida is a gigantic trainwreck without the ability to get out of its own way, to mount a serious campaign operations, or to win statewide races by and large.
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6/ Current #: R: 4.7 D: 4.9 NPA: 3.6 The NPA FL voter in the last 20 years is *broadly* a Shy Tory R voter. Call it 55-60ish%.
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8/ It would be of much greater consequence than a quixotic presidential bid. If roughly half the Democratic field did the same they would alter the shape of American politics, but doing the gut work of politics is boring and hard.
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I wish Andrew Gillum had done this BEFORE the Florida elections, but go ahead, Mr. Wilson.
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Shit's hitting the fan in Deer Park Texas right now. National Guard called in Benzene poisoning in air,barricades going up Nobody's going anywhere Wonder what Trump's gonna do...
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