Folks, I know everyone is re-thinking the money spent in Florida.

[Baitball Blogger]

It might not be practical, but I am thankful for all the effort you put into this state. Things will not get better until we remove the Republicans from high office in this state, and it begins by not giving up.

[Lucinda]

1. If those ballots are still outstanding - Florida may yet flip to Biden

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/fl-ne-south-florida-judge-order-ballots-20201103-oxjbot22ybe5tcrocao6b75doy-story.html

[Turin_C3PO]

2. I love our Florida Dems!

They fought the good fight. Strategy will be re-adjusted and life will go on.

[uponit7771]

3. No, I'm thinking where did Trump get an extra 200,000 people in Miami Dade ?! 200,000 people just

... don't pop out of any freakin were to vote, that's gob smacking.

[crimycarny]

8. Exactly

Very fishy. I want a state wide audit.

[octoberlib]

9. Republicans were out door knocking from the gitgo. Biden refused to get teams out

because of the pandemic until Henry Clyburn raised hell but it was late in the game. The GOP has one of the best GOTV machines in Miami Dade.

[uponit7771]

24. right, I saw that but a 200,000 person jump in one year !??! That's ... wow !!

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Our best chance now is to come within 1% of the vote to start an

automatic recount. The only way to know what happened. I see it as a forensic check.

[uponit7771]

25. +1

[My Pet Orangutan]

4. The rule of thumb is never RELY on winning Florida.

Icing on the cake, or more crudely, not there when actually needed.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

5. I think it's a "nice to win" and an outside chance

like Texas might become over the next decade. However, it certainly shouldn’t be given anything like the attention of North Carolina or Georgia in future, and that applies at every level. It’s more red and therefore should be considered less relevant to non-Republicans.

[Mystery sage]

6. Until the Cubans stop thinking we are for socialism or they go back where they came from.

Never ever rely on Florida

[Baitball Blogger]

12. We absolutely need to provide better information.

We are something in between and we need to find an acceptable term for it.

[BannonsLiver]

13. I vote for the latter

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. It's frustrating as a Floridian because it's never not close..,

...and yet more often than not we end up with the short end of the stick.

[octoberlib]

10. This still happens a lot in NC as well . Our Gov did win re-election by a big margin , though.

[Blue_true]

11. I believe the issue in Florida is educated young people leaving the state

in significant numbers. The new minimum wage change won’t keep them here. We need to develop high tech centers around our big state universities. Georgia and North Carolina have had success doing that, except for Orlando (the evil Disney World, to some here) Florida has lagged way behind and no real effort is being made to change that.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. +1

[octoberlib]

14. It might be how the money is allocated. One of Biden's Latino outreach directors said that

Democratic super pacs sent tons of money into the state but only about 1% went to Latinx outreach. They were more focused on flipping white communities.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. Bad strategy.

[bottomofthehill]

15. A big problem for Democrats in Florida

Is that it is a retiree tax haven. Many that retire there ( not all but many) are retirees fleeing high tax industrial states Their anti tax move makes them very difficult to reach.

[In It to Win It]

17. That terrifies me. That gap is growing and has grown sufficiently over the last 4 yrs

[bottomofthehill]

19. No state income tax is a major draw to retirees.

Covid is going to blow a hole in Florida though. They live on taxing tourists and there is none of that revenue coming in now.

[In It to Win It]

16. I am grateful for each election, people work to turn our state blue

I hope that people don’t give up on us on the future.

...but we got to slow down the GOP retirees or we have to attract more young Democrats.

Onward to 2022, where we have a governors race and a senate seat up for grabs.

[Klaralven]

18. Florida is full of refugees from Latin American socialism and from high income tax states

It's not just Cubans.

[In It to Win It]

22. Yup... Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Colombians also