What happened to John Kerry in Florida?

[South Dakota Democrat]

A big part of it was the overall national picture.  Florida is often around R+3, and since Bush won the popular vote by around 2 points, you'd expect Florida to end up this way.

This was of course different from 2000, though, where it was the tipping point state, so I'm sure it was shocking at the time (I was only an 8th grader so I don't remember, even though this was the beginning of my political nerdiness).