It just sucks balls here.

kind of fools live there. Not surprised of the outcome.

to pierce the veil of bullshit and bots.
Yet

In November 2024, Waltz won by 33%

Gaetz District was a 14.8% margin. Gaetz won in November 2024 by 32%.

Those are gains of 19% & 17.2% (Huge!). If Democrats can do even half that well in the midterms (cut say 9% off Republicans margins everywhere), Democrats will retake the House easily.

and it's a FLA gooper... so there's gonna be more dirty threads to pull on

Of course I don't know where these early votes are coming from, but it is updated frequently. I this link would be a good OP to increase visibility.

We need to get the foul stench of Fox out of this country. It is literally poisoning everything it touches.

Those are HUGE gains. If Democrats can come anywhere close to similar performances across the country in the midterms, Dems will take the House in a landslide.

The MAGA movement needs to die the horrible death it deserves. It sucks we have new Trump ass kissers to deal with.

At recounts ?

Was starlink involved in vote compilation/counting/results ?



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The state is rigged to the max!

An economic boycott all over Florida will be its downfall on top of climate change disasters being ignored by their government and FEMA. Sorry Disney you are screwed there now!

I don't believe we will never have another Democratic win, but you're right that we're on the way to a lot of economic pain thanks to trump and republicans.

The 1st was Democrat Earl Hutto's seat until January 1995.
The 6th was Democrat Buddy MacKay's seat until January 1989; then he moved on to Lt Gov under Lawton Chiles, and then Governor.
Good times.....

and cold-blooded voter self-interest. But it looks like the voters in those districts proved themselves immune.

More than I've ever seen, even in presidential races. All the publicity brought out lots of voters for both sides that might not have voted otherwise. Unfortunately, it brought out more red than blue voters.

It was entirely expected that there would be a significant drop in turn out for these special elections compared to the 2024 election, but the drop off was much greater for repubs -- enough to reduce the margin of victory from around 30% to around 14%, but nowhere near enough to flip either seat.

More specifically, in the First District, the Repub candidate, Patronis, got 69% fewer votes than Matt Gaetz got in 2024, while the Democratic candidate, Gay Valimont, got only 49 percent fewer votes than she got in 2024.

Similarly, in the Sixth District, the Repub candidate, Randy Fine, got 61% fewer votes than Michael Waltz got in 2024, while the Democratic candidate, Josh Weil, got only 41 percent fewer votes than the Democratic candidate got in 2024.

The result was that instead of losing by 33% (first district) or 28% (sixth district), the two Democrats closed the margin to 14% - still a comfortable win for the repubs, but a big drop off for solidly red districts that could bode well for swing districts in 2026 if the pattern continues..