Category Florida Democrats
The Democrats Democracy Problem
In an era where the GOP is increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic, we need the Democrats to defend democracy and advocate for good public policy. But the party as we’re learning from the David Hogg situation has a democracy probleminternally. Kartik Krishnaiyer who has been active in the party for 30 years has seen this before. […]
Why Democrats lose in Florida
Apologize for the crackling audio with the mic in this video, something that usually doesn’t happen with these videos. But still the points in here are a summary of some of the things that have gone wrong the last 25 years.
Democrats name Florida leadership team for 2024- but why?
Florida has gone from a plus 200,000 Democratic voter advantage over the GOP to minus close to 1,000,000 voters since the book closing for the 2020 election. Given Donald Trump won Florida by 3.5% in 2020, if turnout remained the same among both parties voters and the NPA split remained the same (which I personally […]
Broward County, the Democrats Ticking Time Bomb
If you are a Democrat in Florida, there is one thing that is certain each election cycle; Broward County is your anchor. No need to spend money in Broward because it will take care of itself. But in 2022, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist dipped below 60%, deviating from the norm. To put it in […]
Are registered Democrats being purged in Florida?
Prominent Democrats have taken to Twitter claiming that they are victims of a targeted purge, but does data support their claim? Over the last couple of months, Florida Democrats have claimed that they are victim to Republican purging of voters due to the enactment of Senate Bill 7050. However, the numbers don’t seem to support […]
Florida Democrats are in a state of delusion about 2024
We’ve focused more on history and other aspects of Florida society on this site recently partly because Florida seems to be dead and gone politically. Yet Florida Democrats keep crowing about how good their chances are in 2024- especially US Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. Florida Democrats cancelling its Presidential Primary was colossally stupid. When you […]
Will Florida Democrats heed the words of Biden’s State of the Union?
President Biden’s State of the Union last week was remarkable. Not just as a piece of theater but as a reset of the Democratic Party, in an attempt to return to its roots. The words “woke” or discussion of polarizing social issues like trans rights, etc that might motivate donors but have provided diminishing returns […]
The trade: The other side that favors Democrats
Last week, I did a piece discussing how badly Democratic fortunes have faded in the counties directly impacted by Hurricane Idalia. But today, let’s look at the flip side, though it doesn’t completely offset the lost votes in small and medium sized counties for Democrats, it does cut into the lost votes. Specifically, the Orlando […]
The trade : Is it killing the Florida Democrats?
Four the better part of the last 15 years we’ve begun to see huge shifts in partisan preferences nationally which have ushered in a new party system. While long time GOP-leaning suburban areas began to flip towards the Dems, the GOP made HUGE gains in rural, exurban and white working class communities. Such large gains, […]
Democrats must make a play for Red America
After Florida outlawed partisan gerrymandering in 2010, state politicians said they wanted the people to draw our new electoral maps. What that meant was they wanted Right Wing Lobbyists to draw up the maps and then hand them out during town halls throughout the state. For years my Congressional district ran from the outskirts of […]
The Florida Squeeze 