Florida Election Results

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8. The low Democratic turnout is shocking.

In recent years, at least, Republican turnout always exceeds Democratic turnout, so it is expected. What is not expected is a 15 point difference. In 2020, the difference was less than 6%.

Since I have been involved (10 years), messaging has been the province of the candidates and turnout has been the job of the local county parties. Our county party raised enough money to be able to send out a slate card/voting reminder to all registered Democrats. We also had a series of GOTV phone banks to help drive turnout. Our county's turnout was more than 11 points higher than the state average. We still finished 11 points behind the Republicans in our county.

IMHO, Florida Democratic voters are demoralized and that needs to be addressed.