Why did Romney Lose Florida?

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Florida's Cubans have shifted to the Democrats significantly, but Florida has also had a migration of Puerto Ricans into the state which have shifted the state, Presidentially, toward the Democrats.

While Florida's Southern White voters were heavily supportive of Romney, and Florida's wealthy retirees were very pro-Romney, there are a LOT of folks in Florida struggling to remain in the middle class who have older family members they help care for and they often find themselves with a very thin safety net.  (Florida does as little as possible in Social Services; it's goal is to be America's largest tax haven.)  Housing is expensive in Florida, and its costs are deliberately inflated by the investor class that sinks its money in Florida Real Estate; even during the bust years, housing was expensive in much of Florida, relative to wages.  I've got to believe that there were a number of folks affected by this who were ordinarily GOP voters that were legitimately scared about the talk of the GOP about essentially ending the Safety Net, and Romney's 47% comments were not reassuring to these voters.