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Persondem
(2,097 posts)42. If a large pro Dem crowd can turn out in ....
... The Villages then FL just might be in play.
"On Saturday afternoon, around 500 golf carts reportedly paraded through the Villages, a retirement community in Central Florida, in support of Kamala Harris for president — roughly 200 more than the number that reportedly showed up for President Biden ahead of the 2020 election."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-rally-draws-hundreds-of-golf-carts-in-conservative-florida-community-the-villages-200715047.html?
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Poppycock! Of course fund Florida. Obama won it 2x. Biden & Clinton got 48%. Plus it'd help downballot races.
Bucky
Jul 2024
#32
Texas has been a lost cause for a while, dating back to before Richards was elected.
onenote
Jul 2024
#20
We won Virginia by putting money and offices into this state...without which we would have no path to the presidentcy.
Demsrule86
Jul 2024
#17
Really? then keep your money, but consider we need to expand in order to remain comptetitve.
Demsrule86
Jul 2024
#18
No Matter How Much $$$ We Spend in the State Voters in FL Don't Show Up to Vote
Indykatie
Jul 2024
#5
well, we tried to fix it years ago and for a while but we were only shouted down and gaslighted
Nimble_Idea
Jul 2024
#7
We have spent nothing in Florida in the last few years...That state is in real trouble. It is definitely worth
Demsrule86
Jul 2024
#16
I truly believe that if not for the bombing of the post office at Miramar, Gilliam would have been governor
MaryMagdaline
Jul 2024
#30
Exactly, build the ground game before anything else. My brother lives in FL too and says it's a wasteland around him.
OnDoutside
Jul 2024
#23
IMHO the thing that "doomed Hillary's campaign" was not effectively countering GOP attacks.
CaptainTruth
Jul 2024
#48
That is not your decision...all I will say is people said the same thing about Virginia and Georgia...yet we have won
Demsrule86
Jul 2024
#13
Campaign dollars are a war of attrition. If we put dollars there, they put dollars there. It's their 2nd biggest state.
Bucky
Jul 2024
#24
Concentrate on building the ground game in FL, winning locally and go from there.
OnDoutside
Jul 2024
#25
You are presuming that money matters, I still say they can't BUY votes anymore than we can.
flying_wahini
Jul 2024
#45
There are races in every state that need to be funded, and to me, ignoring them is what got you into
Bev54
Jul 2024
#46
I'm seeing polls showing Debbie Mucarsel-Powell tied with or 2 to 4 points behind Rick Scott.
CaptainTruth
Jul 2024
#49