Florida is a perennial swing state, but that appears to only be at the national level.
Despite the fact that the state is almost always a battleground in presidential elections, Republicans seem to have a distinct advantage at the state level.
Florida has had a Republican governor since 1998, it's house delegation is majority Republican, and the GOP controls both houses of the legislature by a wide margin. It looks like Bill Nelson is the only statewide, high profile Democrat, and he looks vulnerable.
So why is this? I can understand gerrymandering as part of the reason. But it doesn't make sense to me that a 50/50 state at the Presidential level is so dominated by Republicans at every other level. It is vote splitting or is the Florida GOP much more organized? Or is it something else?
what's even more interesting is that Florida is a southern state where democrats usually run ahead of the national party.
