[RobRivera]

Florida is a purple state

[dmoy]

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.

[ch4s3]

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]

To be fair, "since Obama" isn't very long ago, and Hillary and Biden weren't very inspiring candidates, to say the least.

[nickv]

I get the sentiment but Obama won his second term in 2012 (12 years ago) and the last Democratic governor was in 1998 (28 years ago!)

Florida hasn't been purple in a long time.

[Jtsummers]

> 2012 (12 years ago)

14 years ago. If you just woke up from a two year nap, well, good luck catching up with everything that's happened.

[ch4s3]

It was 18 years ago, and I did point out other metrics to support my case.

[jlarocco]

The 2016 election was 10 years ago.

[ks2048]

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

[lazyasciiart]

The people, sure. The elected officials? Nope.

[vkou]

It was one 25 years ago.

[rayiner]

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