• @expatriado
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    346 days ago

    would be nice if Biden uses his lame duck status to revert it. FL isn’t much of a purple state anymore anyway

    • @[email protected]
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      66 days ago

      It wouldn’t really mean that much since Trump would reverse that decision immediately.

      Basically just giving Trump a free win with the Latino block in Florida for no discernable benefit.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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      -36 days ago

      Trump got 56.1% vs Harris’s 43% in 2024.

      That means nearly every other person isn’t Republican.

      That’s pretty purple.

      • @grue
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        6 days ago

        By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn’t useful anymore.

        Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it’ll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          46 days ago

          Considering every state to be a purple state would probably be good for Americans as a whole.

          • @grue
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            66 days ago

            So would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.

              • d00phy
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                35 days ago

                Maybe slightly worse than the Electoral College.

      • d00phy
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        65 days ago

        Yeah she lost FL by over 10 points. That’s pretty solidly red.