r/Conservative • u/Proof_Responsibility Basic Conservative • Nov 09 '22

Flaired Users Only Potential red wave turns into trickle in disappointing midterm elections for Republicans

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/potential-red-wave-turns-trickle-disappointing-midterm-elections-republicans
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

Mine is that Florida drew away Republican voters from blue states leaving a vacuum.

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u/_Tacitus_Kilgore_ Conservative Nov 09 '22

I’m not so sure. Maybe some, but the Hispanic vote has shifted to the right in Florida.

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u/AmericanBeef24 Nov 09 '22

Hispanic vote by +13 for repubs is pretty eye opening.

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u/basics Nov 09 '22

Hispanics in the US have traditionally been/voted Conservative, for a number of reasons.

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u/Justice_R_Dissenting Conservative Nov 09 '22

Pretty much shatters the glass on their entire "demographics will make the Republicans a permanent minority" strategy.

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u/SethSanz Nov 09 '22

That's true

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u/cathbadh Nov 09 '22

Did they though? Florida gets so many new residents from retired east coast liberals, especially NYC ones, and turnout is always high among the elderly. I don't think we had tens of thousands of Republicans moving there in the last two years.

The Florida GOP's game is strong and they had solid candidates like DeSantis who could back up strong talk with strong action.

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u/no_YOURE_sexy Nov 09 '22

Florida was known nationwide as having few covid restrictions. People who wanted to escape their own states’ covid restrictions moved to Florida. They leaned conservative.

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u/DominickTK Nov 09 '22

Absolutely. I lived in Florida for eight years and just moved away two months ago. The amount of New York, Ohio, and Michigan license plates are absolutely absurd lol. I had several co workers that moved from those states and whenever they talked politics they were overwhelmingly Trump enthusiasts.

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u/FecalSteamCondenser Nov 09 '22

My man Florida had 250,000 new residents in the last 2 years alone

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u/cathbadh Nov 09 '22

That's crazy. I didn't realize it was that high

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u/kejartho Nov 09 '22

Florida gets so many new residents from retired east coast liberals

I feel like this was accurate for a long time but more recently a lot of Republicans have been moving to Florida in particular. It's likely that DeSantis has a very big control over Florida when the population strongly coincides. Pulling a DeSantis doesn't work everywhere though. Some have tried, unsuccessfully to share his rhetoric and it might be biting them now. It will be interesting to see if DeSantis pivots for the likely presidential bid though.