My Big Fear: Felons Turn Florida Blue Forever

vanity | 11-7-2018 | MrChips

[Jane Long]

Do you know what a “trend” is in politics? Florida has trended right since 2012 in Statewide elections.

That’s a demonstrable fact. It trended 0.30% more GOP in 2016 from 2012.

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What about SINCE 2016?

Do you happen to have any links to answer that, and to support your 2012 - 2016 statement? Asking for a friend, who is gathering up-to-date trend data.

TIA.

[867V309]

Well, I certainly see it.

I live in TX and am witnessing it, first hand.

Prayers up for AZ, TX and FL.

We need an immediate intervention.

I lived in austin for 25 years, breaks my heart to see what happened there.

[TexasGurl24]

Here is the data map for 2016.

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=2016&def=tnd&datatype=national&f=1&off=0&elect=0

Click on the TREND tab in the database.

Florida trended .30% GOP.

We don’t have a trend for 2018 yet, because we don’t yet have a final vote count.

[TexasGurl24]

FYI, USElectionatlas uses BLUE for GOP and RED for Democrats. Don’t get confused.

[nickcarraway]

I think it's worse than you think. Yesterday, an incumbent Republican Senator barely beat a Democrat who ran full left. So, Texas is basically a purple state. And full left candidates barely lost Florida and Georgia. It's hard to imagine that the GOP isn't a regional party from this point on. How can they win without Texas?

Democrats don't even need to pretend to be moderate anymore.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for the link...and, for the FYI blue vs red :-)

It will be interesting to see the 2018 trend(s).

Looks like they’re (Dims) are going for counties outside of Texas metro areas. I wonder if that’s their plan, across all of the red states.

[867V309]

I believe that once a person has served their sentence or (in the case of a murder conviction or felony sexual assault) has their civil rights restored they should have the same franchise rights as other citizens.

if a moron on meth brained your parents in a home invasion, you might see it differently.

[Darth Gill]

Dems will vote for them.

[lastchance]

You are very right. But bad cases make bad law. Attempted homicide conviction still carries a rather stiff sentence. But if some DA offered a plea for a lesser charge resulting in an earlier release that would indeed be an abortion of justice. So perhaps the focus should be on why violent offenders are released early and how to prevent that.

[fruser1]

Felons come with their own alibi.

If they’re found dead somewhere, well, the suspects are criminals they’ve worked with, or associations of those they’ve harmed.

Just sayin’...

[nickcarraway]

It probably won’t help, but I wonder how many felons will actually bother to vote.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Why would felons even bother to vote?

Because someone pays them to do it? Wait - that would be against the law, and a felon would never do that . . .

[Ueriah]

I stand corrected.

You are right.

What I was attempting to articulate is that, left to their own devices, most of them tend to return to prison in short time.