Florida analysis: Too little, too late, after abandoning the Obama playbook
I have to agree with this article from The Hill. It focuses on the major problems I have seen in Miami, with Republicans emphasizing outreach all year long while Democratic operations try to scramble in the final months:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/418579-dems-grapple-with-uncertain-future-in-florida-after-losses
"Multiple strategists and party operatives in the state suggested that Democrats had failed to organize early and effectively enough. They also said the party needs to mount a more sustained voter outreach and registration effort, particularly months or years ahead of elections."
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I am not surprised that Donna Shalala's campaign in FL-27 used a former Obama adviser. As I've emphasized here many times, Shalala is the only Florida Democrat whose campaign kept in touch frequently -- by phone, email and mailers -- similar to what I experienced while living in Clark County, Nevada.
I never heard from Bill Nelson or Andrew Gillum.
"Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based Democratic pollster, said Democrats had all but abandoned the Florida playbook given to them by former President Obama, who won the state in both his 2008 and 2012 White House bids.
That playbook hinged on more robust outreach to Latino voters and an effort to narrow vote margins in more rural parts of the state, Amandi said, adding that Democrats effectively “abandoned that approach in 2010 and 2014, and now again in 2018.”
“From the Democratic perspective in Florida, it’s no longer a question of a reassessment. They need to completely blow up the model and start anew,” said Amandi, who served as an adviser to Rep.-elect Donna Shalala, one of only two Democrats who flipped a GOP-held House seat in Florida."
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