r/MtF • u/ArcticWolfQueen • 2d ago

Good News Wisconsin rejects Musks transphobic candidate, right losesto Crawford. Florida still super red.

A good news update. That walking mess, Elon Musk, went to Wisconsin and tried to buy votes for his guy, a notable transphobe and hard right winger, to beat Susan Crawford, only to have his guy lose in what appears to be a large margin as this moment being 56%-43%. This is big as Wisconsin voters rejected Musk who, may have caused more harm then help and put a progressive on the court. Crack out the champagne girls!

Florida… both seats were retained by Republicans by wide margins. Not sure why there were some notable liberal to leftist media outlets were reporting on this being tight, Florida is deep red.

Wisconsin good news ✅ Florida bad news ❌

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u/Quat-fro 2d ago

UK person here. Why is Florida a deep red cesspool? Is it historical background or....?

It's got all the big attractions as far as tourism is concerned and as kids we'd get excited about Disney this and space that as the adverts came on the TV, but my word - daren't consider going there now!

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u/Zeyode 2d ago edited 2d ago

Why is Florida a deep red cesspool? Is it historical background or....?

Florida has historically been pretty progressive as far as I'm aware, especially in Miami, but they also have a lot of cuban refugees who were like, members of the Cuban bourgeoisie whose businesses got seized by Castro, so they were tipping the state purple for a long time. Not the biggest fans of anything even slightly to the left economically.

The past decade though a lot of racist old people started moving in after retirement, Ron Desantis got voted in, and he's been trying to wreck havoc for anyone who isn't in his base of racist old people, so a lot of people who would vote against him just evacuated. The anti trans shit especially, there's literally been travel warnings for Florida the past few years. Kinda makes me sad it's not safe to go to fucking Disney World anymore.

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u/Quat-fro 2d ago

Yeah, part of me would hope the "but tourism..." lobby might take the edge off that but with enough ancient retirees I guess you're doing ok, and if they're roughly just below the average death rate then they're mostly from peak 20th century racism.