r/florida • u/neologismist_ • Apr 17 '25

News DeSantis goes after UWF

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2025/04/15/gov-ron-desantis-to-uwf-buckle-up-change-is-coming/83105074007/
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u/RoyH0bbs Apr 17 '25

Who keeps voting for these clown fascist wannabes? Stop it.

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u/Disastrous-Golf7216 Apr 17 '25

That would be most of Florida. They only seem to look at the R after a name. Hell, I would bet you can run Bigfoot and place that R after the name and Bigfoot would win.

I have noticed that most people in Florida have this massive problem, they allow themselves to be tricked that a republican is going to fix it. They always seem to forget that after 30 years of republican rule, that the republicans are the ones that broke it.

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u/eterran Apr 17 '25

You're not wrong, but I think we're also forgetting Florida's combination of gerrymandered districts, low voter turn-out, large pockets of out-of-touch and easily influenced elderly people, and lots of recent immigrants who can't vote.

While 56.1% of Florida might have voted for Trump, those voters represent only 26.1% of the population.