So... what happened in our home state of Florida? Why was Democratic turnout so unusually low? [View all]
Why did every single Democratic stronghold fail? None of the strongholds ran up their numbers for Democrats as they usually would.
It was abysmal. I stayed up all night looking at election coverage. I couldn't stop thinking about these two races for governor and senator. DeSantis and Rubio didn't exactly overperform but rather Democrats underperformed significantly. I wasn't exactly expecting an all-out win but I expected a closer race than we got.
The floor for Democratic vote count should have been at least 4 million and we got nowhere near that amount. We just barely scraped past 3 million votes. A significant chunk of Democratic voters in those strongholds that is crucial for Dems just did not bother to turn out.
Where did all these people go? Of all the shocks of the night, this really took me by surprise.
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