So close, but with the four-day-long vote count now over, the President is re-confirmed and I missed a perfect record for my predictions by one state. I have since had myself hung, drawn and quartered, and boiled in oil (mostly for it's slimming effects.) Polls were close right up to the day before the election but, with Florida having a governor, a senator, and nineteen of its twenty-five members of congress all Republicans, to say nothing of the GOP majority in both houses of it's state legislature, giving the edge to the elephants seemed to make sense.What made the difference? What did I miss? The Sunshine State backed Obama in 2008 but, was that any indication of what this year's vote? Who can say?
With one of the most diverse demographics in the country including liberal retirees from New England and conservative Cuban Americans, it can be politically very fickle. To make the situation even more interesting, a potential presidential candidate is manifesting itself in the form of Republican Senator Marco Rubio. Florida has been making headlines since 2000 and it is only going to get worse. This state will be the one to watch in 2016.
Marco Rubio Heads to Iowa. 2016 Starting Already?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/rubio-heads-to-iowa-2016-starting-already/
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