Florida is a purple state

Kinda? Maybe?

Florida, at least for local Florida stuff, like what GP is talking about, has had R governor, senate, and house for 25+ years. With a supermajority R for most of that I think.

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ch4s3 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not really anymore. The house seats are 20R and 8D, they haven't voted blue for president since Obama, and haven't elected a democrat as governor since the 90s. Voter registration is also heavily skewed republican.

	▲	jlarocco 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair, "since Obama" isn't very long ago, and Hillary and Biden weren't very inspiring candidates, to say the least.

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vkou 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was one 25 years ago.

	▲	WarOnPrivacy 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yep. It was when I got here in the early 1990's. Not so much since.

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ks2048 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Interestingly, both FL and TX had the same vote for Trump in 2024: 56.1%

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lazyasciiart 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The people, sure. The elected officials? Nope.

	▲	WarOnPrivacy 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This isn't a bad take. (I'm 35yr in FL)

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rayiner 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It used to be, just like Virginia used to be solidly red. But Trump won Florida by more than Harris won New York.