jocallag
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« on: August 06, 2012, 04:10:07 PM » |
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I think Broward County (Ft Lauderdale-Hollywood) has experienced an extreme shift from being one of the most conservative Republican counties in the 1960s to slightly Democrat in the 1970s and 1980s..as late as 1988 it even voted barely for George H W Bush.
As the older conservatives who made it one of Barry Goldwater's (56%) best large counties have moved or died off, the Jewish senior wave of the mid-1970s made it much more Democrat especially at the local level.
It voted for Carter in 1976 but swung sharply back to Reagan in 1980 as many Jewish voters defected to Anderson and Reagan. In the nineties it became increasingly Democrat voting big for Clinton in both 1992 and 1996. It was one of the few large counties where Al Gore did better than Clinton due to Lieberman's presence as VP as Jewish voters swung heavily to the Dems. An increasing Black vote (now above 20% - even larger than neighboring Miami-Dade) will make it a key county for Obama in 2012.
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