Reply #21: The odds of "what happened last time" happening again are next to nothing

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Florida is the only southern state that's not really that "southern" most of the big metros (miami, tampa, orlando) aren't part of dixie. It also has been one of the fastest growing states of any(which is why it has 2 more electoral votes than 00. Louisiana is the deep south. There is NO argument that it or the carolinas or Virginia are more likely than Florida, even remotely as likely as Florida, to vote democratic.

Many news sources reported months ago, when Bush had much higher approval ratings. after Graham dropped out that GOP strategists were warning the whitehouse that they were extremely concerned over the fact that their numbers indicated if they were to face a strong democratic nominee with Graham as their runningmate, that they could very well NOT carry Florida.

But you're going to let what should prompt you to want poetic justice and win it this time, you're going to let that scare you into forfeiting the most important red state and swingstate? That is just nuts