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Of the so-called battleground states, Florida is the most important because it has the most electoral votes (29). When many people think of Florida they imagine metropolitan Miami, but this area is only a small part of the state. The rest of Florida is part of the Deep South, with the same old Southern problems.
Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election in the state of Florida by just 1% of the vote. In 2004 George W. Bush won the presidency over Al Gore by only 537 Florida votes, which determined the national election. Unlike another battleground state like Ohio, Florida voters do not shift party loyalties. Florida Republicans vote Republican and Democrats vote Democrat, which would normally imply a Democratic advantage since there were 4% more registered Democrats in Florida in 2016.
Votes were not the only deciding factor in both the 2004 and 2016 presidential...