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TexasTowelie

(112,070 posts)
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:32 AM Nov 2017

Why Democrats feel Miami-Dade is moving their way

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County has long been a crucial region for Democrats' hopes of winning races in Florida. But today, the county's Democratic lean is becoming stronger than ever.

Both Al Gore and John Kerry won Miami-Dade by about 40,000 votes. Then, in 2008, Barack Obama won Miami-Dade by 139,000 votes.

Four years later — and contrary to the decline in his vote share elsewhere — Obama won Miami-Dade by 208,000 votes. Finally, in 2016, Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in Miami-Dade by a whopping 290,000 votes.

The trend line is clear: In Miami-Dade, an ethnically diverse metropolitan area where staunchly Republican Cuban-Americans have traditionally played a leading role in politics, the Democrats are gaining ground.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2017/11/22/why-democrats-feel-miami-dade-is-moving-their-way/

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Why Democrats feel Miami-Dade is moving their way (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2017 OP
And by year end 260000 from Puerto Rico storm will land in Orlando Cicada Nov 2017 #1
I like a trend bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 #2
Great news. oasis Nov 2017 #3
Hillary got more votes than anyone -by far- in Miami Dade lunamagica Nov 2017 #4

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
4. Hillary got more votes than anyone -by far- in Miami Dade
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:19 PM
Nov 2017

Yet we are supposed to believe she lost Florida?

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