TO THE AP: SO YOUR AN APOLOGIST FOR ....? THE 2020 FLORIDA PRESIDENTIAL RETURNS.

Here is an article from the AP that talks about the 2020 Florida returns for president. SINCE THEY DID SUCH A GREAT JOB FOUR YEARS AGO IN ANALYZING THE BOGUS RETURNS THAT GAVE TRUMP THE WHITE HOUSE, THIS STORY SHOULD LET US, ONCE AGAIN, BASK IN THEIR WISDOM:

HERE IS THE ARTICLE.

With another Florida loss, Democrats begin second guessing

BOBCAINA CALVAN AND BRENDAN FARRINGTON

Nov 5th 2020 1:29PM

Fla. Perhaps only in Florida is a loss by fewer than 4 percentage points considered a public drubbing.

In a state famous for razor-thin margins, the size of former Vice President Joe Biden's loss to President Donald Trump was humiliating for Democrats and sent many searching for answers to how they failed to close the deal with voters — again.

Democrats zeroed in on two clear explanations: Biden didn't connect with the state's Latino voters, performing particularly poorly with Cuban voters in South Florida. They also second-guessed the party's decision to freeze in-person organizing during the worst of the pandemic, a decision that set them back in reaching voters.

“Clearly, Biden was not able to capture the imagination of the Florida electorate and create the type of enthusiasm to go out and vote for Biden like Trump did with his base of supporters in the state," said Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based Democratic pollster. “It’s an unacceptable record of futility. What makes it so vexing is that the problems that need to be fixed are so apparent. But they just don’t get fixed."

Amandi focused on the Biden campaign's struggles to connect with Hispanic voters in the state.

Trump and Republicans pummeled Biden for months with misleading claims suggesting he was a “socialist” and would cater to the left wing of the Democratic Party. The attacks carried added power with Cuban and Venezuelan Americans, who associate the labels with authoritarian and corrupt Latin American leaders.

Biden's weakness was most evident in his underperformance in Miami-Dade County, which has the state’s deepest concentration of Hispanic voters, particularly Cuban Americans. Biden won the county, the state’s most populous, by just 7 percentage points — compared with Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 30-point victory margin four years ago against Trump.

AP VoteCast, a survey of the Florida electorate, found Trump won 58% of Cuban American voters statewide, while voters with South American heritage split evenly between Biden and Trump. The survey said Puerto Rican voters backed Biden by about 2 to 1.

The relatively poor showing in South Florida hurt other Democrats, as Republicans swept out two Miami-area congressional incumbents — Reps. Donna Shalala and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.

“When you look at Miami-Dade in particular, there was a lot of advertising on the other side of the aisle dealing with socialism and in some cases even the word communism,” said Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist, a former Republican governor who has held three statewide offices.

“I think that obviously had an impact," Crist said. "When you’re attacked you need to fight back. I’m not sure how much of the fighting back occurred on our side.”

Trump had a head start in his adopted home state and used it to make inroads with the Hispanic community, which accounts for about 1 in every 5 voters in Florida.

Biden had a late start. Not only did he have to secure his party’s nomination, he was sidelined from a more aggressive campaign because of the coronavirus pandemic — for a while, Florida was off limits as an epicenter of the outbreak.

While Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, did eventually visit the key battleground state, much of the campaign was conducted virtually because of concerns over the pandemic. When Republicans resumed going to door-to-door, Democrats remained on the sidelines.

WOW, THEY'RE ON THE BALL, NOTHING GETS PAST THEM...UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER. 

HERE IS A SHORT ARTICLE I WROTE ON NOV. 3. DO YOU SEE ANY DIFFERENCES?

2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: LET'S START WITH FLORIDA. UPDATE

SENATE DEMOCRATS, I REALIZE YOUR LEADERSHIP IS USELESS, AND WINNING THE SENATE DOES NOT MEAN MUCH WHEN YOU HANDED OVER THE SUPREME COURT WITHOUT A FIGHT, BUT... A 22.5% INCREASE IN TOTAL VOTES IN FLORIDA. ARE YOU THAT INCOMPETENT AND/OR CORRUPT THAT NOBODY IN THE STATE SAID "HMM, THAT'S A REALLY BIG INCREASE, WE NEED TO LOOK INTO IT NOW," OR DO YOU JUST TAKE WHAT THE REPUBLICANS AND RUSSIANS WILL GIVE YOU?

AS OF RIGHT NOW THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HAS NOT BEEN RESOLVED.

SO, I DECIDED TO GET A JUMP ON THE ANALYSIS, AND STARTED WITH FLORIDA.

2016 REP. VOTE TOTAL- 4,617, 886

2020 REP. VOTE TOTAL- 5,657, 933

INCREASE OF 1,040,047 VOTES or 22.5%

AS OF 4:30PM- TRUMP HAS INCREASED HIS NATIONAL VOTE TOTAL BY 4,749,787 FROM 2016 TO 2020.

 THAT MEANS FLORIDA  ALONE  ACCOUNTS FOR 21.9% OF THAT INCREASE.

                    PERHAPS THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP CAN EXPLAIN HOW THIS INCREASE IS IN ANY WAY ACCEPTABLE?

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Oddly enough, the AP Article does not mention CERTAIN FIGURES, SUCH AS TOTALS AND PERCENTAGES. THE NUMBERS I USED FOR THE STATE HAVE GONE UP VERY SLIGHTLY, BUT DON'T CHANGE MY ANALYSIS IN ANY WAY.

AS YOU CAN SEE, DONALD TRUMP HAD AN INCREASE OF 1,040,047 VOTES BETWEEN THE 2016 AND 2020 ELECTIONS. THIS IS A +22.5% CHANGE. PERHAPS THE AP CAN TELL US IF THIS RESULT WAS SIMILAR TO ANY OTHER STATE IN THE 2020 ELECTION FOR EITHER CANDIDATE. I'LL GO YOU ONE BETTER, IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, HOW MANY OTHER CANDIDATES OR PARTIES HAD A 22.5% INCREASE IN VOTE TOTALS FROM ONE ELECTION TO THE NEXT. FINALLY, WHILE IT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN, AT THE TIME FLORIDAS VOTE TOTAL REPRESENTED MORE THEN ONE- FIFTH OF DONALD TRUMPS INCREASE IN THE NATIONWIDE TOTAL BETWEEN 2016 AND 2020. I ASSUME THIS WAS NOT CONSIDERED IMPORTANT INFO, BECAUSE THE AP DOES NOT MENTION IT.

I GUESS I'M PART OF THAT "LIBERAL MEDIA" BECAUSE I THOUGHT LEAVING OUT SUCH INFORMATION WOULD HAVE BEEN IRRESPONSIBLE.

OH WELL...LIVE AND LEARN.

2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: LET'S START WITH FLORIDA. UPDATE

DEMOCRATS, I REALIZE YOUR LEADERSHIP IS USELESS, AND WINNING THE SENATE DOES NOT MEAN MUCH WHEN YOU  HANDED OVER THE SUPREME COURT WITHOUT A FIGHT, BUT... A 22.5% INCREASE IN TOTAL VOTES IN FLORIDA. ARE YOU THAT INCOMPETENT AND/OR CORRUPT THAT NOBODY IN THE STATE SAID "HMM, THAT'S A REALLY BIG INCREASE, WE NEED TO LOOK INTO IT NOW," OR DO YOU JUST TAKE WHAT THE REPUBLICANS AND RUSSIANS WILL GIVE YOU?

AS OF RIGHT NOW THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HAS NOT BEEN RESOLVED.

SO, I DECIDED TO GET A JUMP ON THE ANALYSIS, AND STARTED WITH FLORIDA.

2016 REP. VOTE TOTAL- 4,617, 886

2020 REP. VOTE TOTAL- 5,657, 933

INCREASE OF 1,040,047 VOTES or 22.5%

AS OF 4:30PM- TRUMP HAS INCREASED HIS NATIONAL VOTE TOTAL BY 4,749,787 FROM 2016 TO 2020.

 THAT MEANS FLORIDA  ALONE  ACCOUNTS FOR 21.9% OF THAT INCREASE.

                    PERHAPS THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP CAN EXPLAIN HOW THIS INCREASE IS IN ANY WAY ACCEPTABLE?

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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION: The fall 2020 APA newsletters are available.

 

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