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Originally Posted by renaissance  Also, can a knowledgeable American citizen please explain to me why Florida is such a black hole of political fail? Why they are at the center of every voting disaster in the country... consistently? Is it the people? Is there a corrupt state government? Wat? |
Its very closely split state (like 50/50 dem/rep). In 2000 incompetent state govt leadership led to a disaster with shitty ballots and unable to correctly count the vote - remember that chick with the titties who was responsible for vote counting... Harris? 2004 went ok more or less.
In 2008 the state leadership moved the primaries up in order to "be important". Many, many states moved their primaries up, its just that MI and FL moved it up too early breaking democratic rules set years/months earlier. Interestingly enough PA also wanted to move it up, at least the governor did, but the legislature kind of dickered around and it never passed. In hindsight of course it turned out the late states are the deciders, not the early ones.
Hopefully the people of florida are pissed off at their retarded elected government and vote out the people who decided to break the rules in a grab for glory, its 100% their fault FL and MI essentially got written off the democratic primary process.