The politics of Slot Machines in Florida
On Thursday, May 18th 2017, Florida’s Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision striking down slot machines in Gadsden County. Gadsden had approved slot machines…
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The Regional Disparity in Florida’s Judicial Retention Elections
Last week, the Florida House passed a bill creating 12 year term limits for Supreme Court Justices. Florida justices already must retire…
How High-End Student Complexes Created the Most GOP Precinct In Leon County
Leon County is one of only six Florida counties to vote Democrat for President in every election since 1992. A combination of three…
Results of 2017 Broward Municipal Elections
A handful of Broward’s 30+ cities held their municipal elections on March 14th. While more cities are moving their elections to correspond with the…
Presidential Results by Florida State House District
In 2015, Florida’s Congressional and State Senate districts where struck down as GOP gerrymanders that violated the Fair District Standard of the Florida…
Presidential Results by Florida Senate District and the Impact of Redistricting
In 2015, Florida underwent mid-decade redistricting for its state senate lines, around the same time it was forced to redraw its congressional boundaries. Unlike…
Florida Senate District 19 Primary: Battle of the Bay
Anyone who followed my Florida redistricting coverage in 2015 knows I was strongly against a senate district that linked Tampa and St Petersburg…
The 2016 US Senate Democratic Primary Results and the Continued North Florida Protest Vote
The US Senate Primary for the Democratic Party was a landslide with for Patrick Murphy. Murphy got 59% of the vote, with…
The Tale of the Panhandle Protest Vote: Expect anti-grayson and anti-murphy votes in North Florida
On the night before the 2014 Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, I correctly predicted that Nan Rich would do best in the rural panhandle of…
Florida’s First Minor-Party Primary: Battle of the Libertarians
On the August 30th ballot, for the first time in Florida’s history, there will be a primary for a minor party nomination for…