Lessons for Dems:
- Don’t leave votes on the table. Get your voters who hold absentee ballots to turn them the f***k in early. FL ballots have to be received on e-day. You can’t mail them on e-day. You can’t even mail them 3 days before e-day because you know the post office will mess it up. They need to turn in those ballots in person, mail them a week earlier or just vote in person. Also, sort out the relationships with the election boards to sort out ballot format, EV locations, voter hotlines and other voting logistics well beforehand.
- HRC is popular in South Florida. She got the best Dem performance in South FL in history. If you want to win Latino voters there, use her and her playbook. The two members of Congress who flipped seats there did campaign with her and their campaigns differed from the statewide races as they sounded much more like our congressional campaigns elsewhere. Use the formulas that work.
- GOP share in Miami Dade and in Palm Beach Co have to be at 37% or below.
- Go right after the GOP in the I-4 exurbs. Stop ignoring those areas. Every gain that the Dems have made in Jacksonville and St. Petersburg has been offset by GOP gains in the I-4 exurbs.
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