Florida shifts away from Republicans (unemployment, independence, Hispanics, school)

[Goinback2011]

Originally Posted by beachmouse

It was a gamble for the state to get into the reinsurance market, and given the current lull in major storms we've had since the legislation passed, it's a gamble that is looking to have worked.

What's far more unsustainable for the state is to have to rely on the private market for reinsurance because the very high profit margins the modern reinsurance market demands as a cost of doing business.

The housing stock prior to about 2000 was mostly smallish single story homes.

Then the moron developers from NY and CA moved in to build McMansions in hurricane zones.

There hasn't been a big storm since Wilma.

That won't last forever. As soon as it does, the entire state is SOL due to the way Crist took over the insurance industry. Scott has sold some of that business off - to fly by night companies.

As long as you rent there, I guess it doesn't matter. But homeowners must be brain dead to stay.

I lived there for 24 years and this is one of the reasons I left.

Sell your home to incoming Northeners or speculators while you can. Let them sink with their servants.

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by ComSense

Gimme a break.

Let me guess, you're from NY?

Nah, I'm from Chicago and probably no more fond of New Yorkers than you. But it's a fact AC was invented by a New Yorker. There's no doubt New Yorkers and New Englanders are intelligent, enterprising and hard working.

[The Villages Guy]

Promise more free stuff......Get more votes.

Promise to be fiscally responsible......Get voted out.

That is the world we live in today. There is no turning back. More voters than not simply want as much given to them, at the expense of someone else. And that happens in both parties. Voters are to blame for what the system has become. Politicians in both parties are simply putting on an act in order to convince their voting block that they really care and will actually make a difference. In the end, nothing really changes....no matter who is in charge. We spend more, we rack up more debt, we give more freebies. It just goes on and on and always will.

No sense arguing about it.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by chopchop0

Time for the republicans to ask Chris Christie how he does it

Christie could be the answer to defeating the biggest problem this country faces, which is the partisan divide which has been sabotaging us for the past 20 years.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

The quote from the article below...along with a younger, more diverse population evolution in Florida sums up the reason for the shift.

"Lyman and Claudia Hussey, St. Petersburg retirees who attended the rally, said they plan to vote for Crist. They had been Republicans for 50 years and became Democrats after concluding the state and national parties had been taken over by extremists."

The irony is if they had been taxpaying, working citizens, they are the ones who would be most hurt by Obozocare as the liberals and Democrats raise their premiums and harm the quality of their healthcare while illegal aliens and ghetto people in the city benefit.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Obama, Hillary and Bloomberg are so far left that any alternative would be better than them.

[bobtn]

Originally Posted by chopchop0

Time for the republicans to ask Chris Christie how he does it

[bobtn]

Originally Posted by sware2cod

It is already occurring. Voting trends for the past 50 years in the USA show the number of whites vs. non-white voters changes by .05% per year, where white voters have been decreasing. It is directly related to the nation's demographic shift.

Every presidential election cycle, there are 2% fewer caucasian voters vs other races, as a whole. In 10 more years we will see 5% fewer caucasian voters (actual turnout). This means Republicans will gradually lose more and more voters over the years since non-whites are much more likely to vote non-Republican.(Non-whites don't ALL vote Democratic. But statistically non-whites vote Democtratic between 60-75% of the time).

Obviously than, for the GOP to have any real shot at POTUS and Senate majorities, they MUST win a higher percentage of the non white vote. You know, be a big tent party.

[Tatooine]

Originally Posted by Sunny-Days-in-Florida

Tree hugger run states are in financial ruins and over taxed the job creators. No tree hugger state succeeds like republican ran states. Known fact.

And yet aren't red states the states with the most poor and higher rates of welfare?

[hawkeye2009]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

America's best days are still ahead.

I am SO glad to be an American by accident of birth.

Probably not


As shown in "The Curly Effect", politicians tend to promote policy which expands their constituency. Given that most poor, dependent people are democrats, the goal of democrat policy is to create more poor people.

Additionally, we have a government sponsored policy which encourages the poor and those of lower intellect to have more and more children. Thus, we not only have more poor people by virtue of economic policy, but also more idiots and poor via social policy.


So if one feels as though the state of the nation will improve with more poor and lower intellect citizens, then the "best years" of the US are ahead of us. If, on the other hand, you believe that hard working, intelligent people make a more prosperous nation, then perhaps our best years are behind us. With the majority of citizens being dependent and the average IQ at 96, the "keys to the kingdom" are in the hands of people who tend to make poor decisions in life. These "poor decisions" will help them in the short run, but will doom the nation as a whole.

Does anyone really think that poor, dependent people will suddenly vote AGAINST receiving more "free stuff", gain 20 IQ points, become more informed, and suddenly make rational decisions?